Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/07/08

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Perhaps more reason to avoid ebay
From: frank theriault <knarf.theriault@sympatico.ca>
Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2003 07:39:16 -0400
References: <BB2FB9B3.964A%eric@jphotog.com>

Of course someone in public being photographed has the ~right~ to say "no".
They are simply wrong in their assertion that the photographer has no right to
photograph them.

That's the beauty of freedom of speech:  we have the right to be wrong!  <vbg>

cheers,
frank

Eric Welch wrote:

> 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."
>
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