User blog:Sprinklemist/Admin Post: Gideoncrawle's Inquiry Edition (Admins reply only, please)

Gideoncrawle requested to upload pictures of high school girls that he feels resemble the actual TDI girls. He works as a high school girls sports photographer. Here is the information he provided me in inquiring as to whether he can post these images in a gallery on his user page. Here is (part of) what he explained to me on my talk page:

"I have previously published most, if not all of these photos at www.highschoolsports.net. The reason I don’t simply link to those files is that my real name is attached to them.

In a separate action, I have granted these and other photos to the public domain. The girls know this, as I included a notice to that effect with the photo CDs I distribute to them after each season.

Because the photos are all of game action, there are no “compromising positions”.

Because the girls are performers at public events—they are players, not spectators—they would appear to have (to use the legal terminology) “no reasonable expectation of privacy”.

The 5 girls who were in this year’s basketball program know of my plan, as I am including this gallery (along with a PDF version of TDI-G&S) as Easter eggs on this year’s photo CDs. They pronounced the idea, “cool”.

As I indicated before, I am content to abide by policy if the decision remains adverse; but I wanted you to have all the facts."

I would like to know if this is okay with the other admins, here. Images in the public domain are alright, but I want to be positive that A. This isn't against some rule that I'm not aware of. B. This is okay with the other admins.