Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]From: Paul Schiemer <schiemer@magicnet.net> Sent: Saturday, September 25, 1999 02:30 Subject: [Leica] <no Leica> Photo Vultures > If I tell you not to, there's nothing wrong with that. > If you persist, thereby escalating the situation, then > I have certain additional rights to protect myself from > physical harm. Taking a picture is not physically harmful. > If you thrust your lens into my face in a threatening > manner (and all it has to be is threatening to me) I have > every right to protect myself with whatever action I > deem appropriate at the time. If this is an allusion to some sort of physical violence, I think you might find it difficult to defend that in court. Hitting someone just because he is pointing a camera at you can land you in jail in some jurisdictions. > Unless your privilege of gathering news precludes my right > to pass freely on the street, or protect myself from attack? Being photographed is not a physical attack. > The right to publish doesn't make breaking the > law to get the photo righteous. An aversion to being photographed does not justify a physical attack. -- Anthony