Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/24

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Subject: Re: [Leica] <no Leica> Photo Vultures
From: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@atkielski.com>
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1999 01:47:35 +0200

From: Paul Schiemer <schiemer@magicnet.net>
Sent: Saturday, September 25, 1999 02:30
Subject: [Leica] <no Leica> Photo Vultures


> If I tell you not to, there's nothing wrong with that.
> If you persist, thereby escalating the situation, then
> I have certain additional rights to protect myself from
> physical harm.

Taking a picture is not physically harmful.

> If you thrust your lens into my face in a threatening
> manner (and all it has to be is threatening to me) I have
> every right to protect myself with whatever action I
> deem appropriate at the time.

If this is an allusion to some sort of physical violence, I think you might find
it difficult to defend that in court.  Hitting someone just because he is
pointing a camera at you can land you in jail in some jurisdictions.

> Unless your privilege of gathering news precludes my right
> to pass freely on the street, or protect myself from attack?

Being photographed is not a physical attack.

> The right to publish doesn't make breaking the
> law to get the photo righteous.

An aversion to being photographed does not justify a physical attack.

  -- Anthony