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The W3C's job is to standardize implementations. Most standards bodies do not invent on their own. In any case, a standards body will generate the fundamentals allowing the ability to piece together components to create what a developer wants. No standards body is able to come up with every desire of every developer.

Activity in public does not require a release. Search for "street photography" or read one of these:

http://www.clickinmoms.com/blog/street-photography-and-the-l...

http://www.pdnonline.com/features/What-Photographers-N-10515...

I don't see in the article that she won but this is different. She was posing for a photographer with the understanding it was to be used for an ad but they never got a release. It doesn't matter she was in a public place. The problem lies in that she was hired for one thing and it was used for another.