RE: [Leica] Use of Tripod (Was Copyright questions)

["Vozeh, Colin" <colin@longitude.com>]

I see people with tripods all the time in Times Square.  Then again, maybe
they paid some kind of permit, I don't know.  

C. 


- -----Original Message-----
From: Herbert & Lee Kanner [mailto:kanner@acm.org] 
Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 6:10 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: [Leica] Use of Tripod (Was Copyright questions)

Yes, I would really love to see this question taken into the courts. 
I understand restrictions on tripods where they could interfere with 
pedestrian traffic (e.g. N.Y. Times Square),  or present a nuisance 
and hazard, as in a museum.  But the notion that if you are on a 
tripod, you are a professional photographer and are going to use the 
pictures commercially should be challenged.

One friend was kicked off what appeared to her to be a public 
sidewalk by a private security guard because she was trying to 
photograph the building of Oracle, the software firm in Redwood 
Shores, CA.  Another friend told me that if they think you are a 
professional, they won't permit you to take photographs in any public 
park in San Jose, CA unless you pay something like $45 for a permit 
that is valid for only a few hours.

Just hearing about it burns me up.

ACLU: Where are you when you are needed?

Herb


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