Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/12/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Tim Atherton wrote: There has been a lot of discussion of this on European and US PJ lists. The feeling in the US (with some notable exceptions) is as per BD. The overall feeling in Europe and the UK is - of course he was a PJ - what's with the US Photographers on their ethical high horse all of a sudden. Two totally different cultures at work. Tim A ************************************************** Tim & B.D., My impression is (as Tim seems to confirm) that more photographers in Europe are freelancers as opposed to staff photographers in the USA and that US court interpretations of "freedom of the press" are much more closely tied to the actions of a publishing entity (the newspaper, if you will) and its agents. I know that writers who work on "spec" are often not recognized to have the same protections as a reporter working for a newspaper, so maybe the same holds for photographers. Of course, when you mix in disputes with "the government", often times the legality of official action is not resolved until much later through the courts. How long was it before the French did anything (or were they ever held to account?) for the destruction of that Greenpeace ship in the South Pacific? RP Johnson - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html