[Leica] Photojournalists and permission

[robertmeier at usjet.net (Robert Meier)]

> If we have that right (many lawyers would call it a moral right to our own 
> image), then what gives us the authority to claim that homeless -- because 
> of their circumstance -- have given up all moral rights to the use of 
> their own image and privacy?  Because they are poor? Because they are 
> living on the street?


Precisely.   People on the public street may be photographed without their 
permission.   That is basic.   It doesn't matter if they are homeless or the 
Queen of England.   The public street is public.