Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/01/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I think its an interesting question. When someone has an expectation of privacy, their home for example, you should be unable to go in there and take photos without permission. No such expectation of privacy exists in public spaces like supermarkets, stores and even Starbucks. However, you are a business invitee at those places and the landowner, building owner, lessor, etc. may place reasonable limits on your rights as an invitee. That means that probably can, should they desire, limit your right to take pictures on their premises. It is not a matter of checking your rights at the door, you have your rights, its where you can exercise them that is at issue. - -----Original Message----- From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of B. D. Colen Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 1:26 PM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: RE: [Leica] Taking Photos in Starbucks Mark - I'm not a lawyer, but I play one on the LUG... ...I don't believe that they have to show anyone squat - all they have to say is 'you can't take photos here.' It is their store. It is private property. You basically check your rights at the door. Unfortunately. B. D. - -----Original Message----- From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Mark Cohen Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 12:33 PM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: RE: [Leica] Taking Photos in Starbucks Im more of a peets kind of guy, but corporate shooting is pretty much the same everywhere.. You can't go into a supermarket here with a camera and not have a geeky looking store manager with nothing better to do than harass you about taking pictures in a store tell you to stop or leave. I personally like to fill my cart up, get ready to leave anyway and start shooting away.. Even get a few pictures of the manager :) That way you get an action shot of him telling you to leave. *Then they get to put away all of those groceries you had in your cart.. :) *Even the deli stuff that you had cut specifically for you!* After doing time in art school, where we had _many_ classes on photography, rights and responsibilities, I learned that they can't really make you stop, all they can do is call the cops on you. Since you bought a cup of coffee, you aren't loitering and they won't really do anything to you. You then speak out telling people in the store about how Starbucks is infringing on your right to make art. Sometimes, I ask to see a copy of the corporate policy.. If there is such a thing, they have to show it to you in writing. In fact I believe that they have to post a sign somewhere about such a policy. Anyway, Im off my soap box... - -Mark - -----Original Message----- From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Don Lawrence Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 8:20 AM To: leica-users-digest@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: [Leica] Taking Photos in Starbucks I stopped by my local Starbucks this morning to grab a coffee and scone. While waiting in line, I took a quick photo of the expresso operator at work just using up a roll of film so I could process it tonight. The line still had several people in front of me so I began looking around for another photo with the M6 in my hands. Then the manager caught my attention and said 'you can't take pictures in here'. No problem, but is this a new Starbucks policy or is a franchise prerogative? I have taken photos in there before with no comment. Don > This week I started out working with the 15mm and working really > close. The first image is in a Starbucks in Buckhead. This is a > great place, about three minutes before I took this shot Governor > Barnes and his wife had stopped in for some espresso, no hassle, no > one notices, life goes on. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html