Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/07/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]on 07/07/03 11:09 PM, Clive Moss at chmphoto@sbcglobal.net wrote: > It is > my right to photograph anything I think worth photographing. It is equally > my right not to be photographed or recorded in any action I take. Hmmm. You would be correct on the first point, and incorrect on the second. If you are in public, you have no right to say no. Because you have no right to tell me what I can and can't photograph in public. To keep from being photographed, stay out of the public eye. The right to photograph trumps your right to privacy because the former is more important for the free exchange of ideas, thus protected by the first amendment. I am limited in how I can use those photos outside of the "marketplace of ideas." If I take them to the marketplace of mammon (my wallet benefits), it's a whole new set of rules, and your right trumps mine. At least here in the States that's how it works. Eric Welch Carlsbad, CA http://www.jphotog.com On January 24, 1209, after defeating the town of Beziers, near the Mediterranean coast, the French army is faced with how to tell which inhabitants are "damned heretics," and which are "good Christians." Simon IV of Montfort comes up with his infamous solution: "Kill them all, for the Lord will know his own." - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html