Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/01

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Subject: Re: [Leica] When is a release required
From: Jeffcoat Photography <jeffcoatphoto@sumter.net>
Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2000 13:54:58 -0500

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