Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/02/15

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Subject: [Leica] IMG Taking photos of police officers could beconsidered a crime
From: gerry.walden at me.com (Gerry Walden)
Date: Sun Feb 15 22:27:53 2009
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And thereby hangs the rub. The police are already using it to stop  
legitimate photojournalists with no evil intentions from carrying out  
their work. Once arrested or he has had his camera impounded a  
photojournalist finds it difficult to work. The fact that no charges  
are later brought is almost irrelevant.

Gerry

Gerry Walden
+44 (0)23 8046 3076
www.gerrywalden.co.uk
www.stockuk.co.uk

On 16 Feb 2009, at 02:44, Greg Lorenzo wrote:

> One of the problem's with the proposed UK Act, for me, is the basic  
> loss if personal liberty on the basis of some police officer  
> possibly laying a charge without knowing what the person taking the  
> photograph actually has intended the photo for (i.e. what is in his/ 
> her mind). This is very different then laying a charge after a photo  
> is used to aid terrorism.


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