Re: [Leica] Re- Clementine

["\(SonC\) Sonny Carter" <sonc@sonc.com>]

Don

HAHAHAH! You crack me up!  Since when does this list center on Leica
Photographs?  Wow, what a hoot, you are really a card, and the line about
Kim being a control freak!

whew,

Sonny   (I'm all right now, wiping away tears!)





- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Don R." <don.ro@verizon.net>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 8:18 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Re- Clementine


> Kim:
>
> And what business of yours was it to lecture a specific photographer about
> anything much less legal matters? If you don't have a state bar license I
> seriously doubt your are qualified to give a legal opinion and may be
guilty
> of  barristery.
>
> Just the typical "control freak" wanting to control one more human being I
> take it.
>
> If  "model release" is an "issue for potential discussion"  as you now
say,
> why not give us your dissertation but leave the specific photographer out
of
> it.  Then you may ramble on with no harm being done.
>
> Let the specific photographer alone. Let him do his thing.
>
> By the way, where are your Leica photos?
>
> Don R.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <Teresa299@aol.com>
> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
> Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 7:27 PM
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Re- Clementine
>
>
> >
> > In a message dated 9/30/02 4:59:19 PM, gregj.lorenzo@shaw.ca writes:
> >
> > << I agree!
> >
> > Pascal wrote:
> >
> > >On 30-09-2002 17:32 Neal Friedenthal wrote:
> > >
> > >>I usually avoid jumping in on these "controversial" threads, but I
have
> to
> > do
> > >>so here. While I have no problems with the image itself, it is quite
> nice
> > and
> > >>very
> > >>tastefully done, everyone seems to have missed one important issue,
> > Clementine
> > >>is only 17 years old. At 17 she is below the age of concent.  Her
parent
> or
> > >>guardian would have to give permission for the picture to be posted or
> for
> > >>that matter taken. The photographer has left himself open for possible
> civil
> > >>or even
> > >>criminal action should the girl or her parents object to the photo. To
> > >>photograph a minor, nude, without parental permission and supervision
> leaves
> > >>the
> > >>photographer open to a charge of statutory rape even if, as I'm sure
is
> the
> > >>case here, nothing more happened than the photo session.  To take the
> photo
> > >>even
> > >>with parental concent would in my opinion be ill advised, to post it
> without
> > >>permission is downright stupid.  Believe me I am no prude, but I am a
> > realist
> > >>you have
> > >>to cover your butt in this world.
> > >>
> > >
> > >I think that those who had a concern over this should have better
> contacted
> > >Gerry directly via private email instead of stirring up yet another
> debate
> > >in the LUG.
> > >
> > >Pascal
> > >NO ARCHIVE
> > > >>
> >
> >
> > I understand that the LUG has been irrationally contentious of late, but
I
> > certainly hope that in the spirit of civility the LUG doesn't become a
> hollow
> > shell of yes-men and a few women.
> >
> > I raised the issue of consent not as a form of bashing Gerry on the head
> but
> > simply expressing that in my mind it's a common courtesy to ask a nude
> > subject's consent before posting his or her photo on the web.   Whilst I
> > could have emailed Gerry directly, why would I?  Neither my point nor my
> post
> > was intended or contructed to embarass the man, rather it's an issue of
> > potential discussion.
> >
> > If simple discussion of issues on the LUG has automatically become
equated
> > with controversy I'm hard pressed to see which is worse, unending
> bickering
> > or the silent death that befalls a community of folks afraid to speak.
> >
> >
> > -kim
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