Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/04/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hello- on Mon, 5 Apr 1999 14:14:18 S London <srlondon@yahoo.com> wrote: >Does anybody know of any specific instances of >lawsuits stemming from photographs in a public place? > Yeah. About '82 or '83, a lifeguard had just pulled a little girl out of the water and done CPR for close to ten minutes. The ambulance had pulled away. A news photographer walked up to him, told him the little girl didn't make it, stuck a camera in his face and shot the picture. Then he told the lifeguard he didn't know if she was OK or not. The lifeguard punched the photographer through the camera, thus proving it is possible to break a Nikon F2. Lawsuits were filed and then dropped. Rumor was the editor agreed to cover all costs if the photographer would apologize and resign immediately. Things happen differently in small towns-if this had happened in Chicago it probably would have wound up in front of the Supreme Court. Jim Colburn