Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/05/26

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Subject: [Leica] a photographer sued
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Sun, 26 May 2013 20:21:26 +0530
References: <CAEve6Xiz92RtAZd9u_FpBd2+w9nmsKCPux1OWbQ6LMtwofUb9w@mail.gmail.com> <CBBB80D9-E0F0-4981-AC74-BF6579C5B677@me.com>

I was actually quite surprised a gallery agreed to represent and sell what 
seems to be the work of a Peeping Tom at best, a voyeur at worst. At any 
rate, some definitive case law should come out of it, which should clarify 
the dos and donts for the future.
Cheers
Jayanand


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On 26-May-2013, at 8:15 PM, Gerry Walden <gerry.walden at me.com> wrote:

> I read about this guys work elsewhere and my immediate thought was that he 
> was skating on very thin ice legally. It will be interesting to see the 
> outcome of this, but in my eyes it is a very clear case of invasion of 
> privacy, and I feel that even the defence of 'in the public interest' will 
> fail here if he attempts to invoke it.
> 
> Gerry
> 
> Gerry Walden
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> +44 (0)797 287 7932
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> 
> On 26 May 2013, at 15:38, scleroplex <scleroplex at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> even i have to agree they have a case here.
>> he was not on a public street shooting what is in plain sight.
>> 
>> http://www.courthousenews.com/2013/05/24/57929.htm
>> 
>> bharani
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