Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Interesting in light of our recent street shooting discussions: Tim A > > From Wednesday's London Evening Standard: > > ".....the French government is proposing to satisfy this public discontent > with a ferociously restrictive new law, that will almost certainly kill > mainstream news photography as it is currently practised - if applied to > the letter. > > The main effect of the planned law - which has already been approved in > draft form by both the Assemble Nationale and France's upper house, the > Senate - will be to ban the publication of any photograph which > "diminishes > the dignity" of its subject." > > The full text of his article is available at: > > http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/dynamic/news/story.html?in_review_id =204294&in_rev iew_text_id=166151 http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/dynamic/news/story.html?in_review_id=204294&in _rev