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Subject: [Leica] Fwd: [APAnet] Make a Video or Photo Public Comment to Save Street Photography
From: images at comporium.net (Tina Manley)
Date: Thu Jul 26 13:42:59 2007

Groups -

Anybody who ever photographs in New York might want to consider 
signing this petition:


> >PICTURE NEW YORK
> >
> >PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY - please excuse duplicate postings!
> >
> >Dear Artist:
> >
> >You can make a movie on a cell phone, but what if you want to use a 
> >tripod,
> >or stay in the same spot for more than 30 minutes? New regulations from 
> >the
> >Mayor's Office on Film set absurd restrictions that would require you to
> >have a permit, and a million dollar insurance policy. No doubt it would be
> >selectively enforced, AND who needs that kind of law on the books in the
> >first place?
> >
> >Not you, not us, not anyone that wants to take some pictures at any random
> >time they have a few hours. We bet not even the Mayor's Film Office
> >actually wants to process thousands of requests from shutterbug tourists,
> >wedding photographers, and school groups.
> >
> >Yes, the rules are written THAT broadly.
> >
> >That's nuts. The Daily News
> ><<http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2007/07/03/2007-07-03_lights_ 
> camera_inaction.html>http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2007/07/03/2007-07-03_lights_camera_inaction.html>
>  
>
> >and The NY Sun 
> <<http://www.nysun.com/article/57680>http://www.nysun.com/article/57680> 
> have both written
> >editorials ridiculing the new regulations. You can read the eleven page
> >brick of regulations here
> ><<http://www.nyc.gov/html/film/downloads/pdf/moftb_permit_regs.pdf> 
> http://www.nyc.gov/html/film/downloads/pdf/moftb_permit_regs.pdf>.
> >
> >We need to fight back. With enough public outcry we can stop these
> >regulations from becoming law. There's a recent precedent: a ban on
> >photography in the subways was successfully fought off in 2004-2005.
> >
> >The all-too-brief period for public comment ends Aug 3. Please make your
> >voice heard now:
> >
> >1) MAKE A VIDEO OR PHOTO PUBLIC COMMENT.
> >Post your work shot in NYC or new work commenting on this issue to YouTube
> >or Flickr.
> >
> >+ Tag the video or stills ""PictureNewYork"" and ""CameraWars"".
> >+ Send the links to <mailto:jcho%40film.nyc.gov>jcho@film.nyc.gov 
> and to us at <mailto:info%40picturenewyork.org>info@picturenewyork.org
> >
> >Spoken word artist Juliana Luecking has already posted her response
> ><<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCsLBts0pw8>http://www.youtube.com 
> /watch?v=DCsLBts0pw8> to the proposed rules.
> >
> >2) Click here to email comments 
> <<http://citizenspeak.org/node/1123>http://citizenspeak.org/node/1123> to 
> the
> >Mayor's Film Office and the City Council committee that oversees them.
> >
> >3) Click here to sign our petition
> ><<http://www.pictureny.org/petition/index.php>http://www.pictureny. 
> org/petition/index.php>.
> >
> >
> >
> >Picture New York is an ad hoc group of working artists, photographers and
> >filmmakers joined together to fight these dumb rules.
> >
> ><http://www.picturenewyork.org>http://www.picturenewyork.org
> >Picture New York.
> >Picture New York WITHOUT pictures of New York.
> >Picture New York without the pictures YOU make of New York!
> >

Tina 

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