Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/11/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]De B. D. Colen <bdcolen@earthlink.net>, le mercredi 12 novembre 2003 à 15:14 GMT : >Go the the archives of this list for endlessly extensive discussions of >this issue. B. D., I've found nothing interesting in the archives. So I took the "bible" and looked it up: It sez: Everyone has an exclusive and absolute right to his/her image and the usage thereof.[...] This right does not change in a public place. This right to ones image vanishes in front of another fundamental right: the freedom of "expression" and "information". So, if a reporter was prosecuted for photographing people in a public place, the usage of the pictures must have been defamatory... Tarek For those interested, the book is called: "Photographier dans les lieux publics", La documentation Francaise, ISBN:2-11-003845-4 written by a lawyer, it's the bible for every photographer "shooting" in public places - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html