Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/05/03

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Off Topic - Quebec Decision
From: Dan Cardish <dcardish@microtec.net>
Date: Sun, 03 May 1998 08:38:30 -0400
 
At 10:43 PM 02-05-98 -0500, you wrote:
>>photographs. To accept such an exception would, in fact,
>>amount to accepting that the photographer's right is
>>unlimited, provided that the photograph is taken in a public
>>place, thereby extending the photographer's freedom at the
>>expense of that of others. 
>
>And you miss the point. It's not the photographer's right that would be
>protected, but the public's, to be informed. [snip]

The public's right to be informed? About what?  That this girl was sitting
on the street in public? 

Dan C.