Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Yes your right. Once I was shooting a commercial image of a wreck victim for an attorney and he was with me and we had the patients permission and the Head Nurse STILL tried to have arrested. Some days we stay in bed! Cheers Wilber Ruralmopics@aol.com wrote: > In a message dated 2/1/00 9:51:26 AM, jeffcoatphoto@sumter.net writes: > > >Don't ever shoot in a hospital with out permission, unless you can do the > >100 > >yard dash in about 2 sec flat. If you think cops have no sense of humor > >try a > >head nurse. > > Oh don't get me wrong, whenever I shot in hospitals it was with permission. I > wasn't trying to sneak clandestine photos. But even so, as I understand it, > for a newspaper photographer the release serves to protects the hospital, not > the photographer. It's the hospital that's going to have the toughest time if > a patient sues . . . > > Bob (tries to be patient with bureaucrats and "administrators") McEowen