Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/04/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Eric Welch wrote: > > At 09:38 AM 4/5/99 -0400, you wrote: > >While a photographer > >has rights, people also have rights of privacy. > > That is quite true. If a person has a reasonable expectation of privacy. In > a public place, a person has no constitutional right to privacy. The bounds > of decency are another thing. We all have to balance our rights against > anther persons. snip Also there are issues such as "freedom of the press" and "freedom of expression" which these newly conveniently rediscoved right to privacy issues have thankfully done little to circumvent. I believe privacy issues are sometimes of course valid but lately are just an excuse to circumvent the above stated Basic American rights. And as photographers, we need to heed trampling the flowers. Mark Rabiner