Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/07/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ted It is not just in 'old world cities' that this applies. Professional photography for all purposes is totally banned on all property in the UK owned by the National Trust, which (as you may appreciate) own an awful lot of properties and large areas of land to which the rule also applies. They claim total copyright (?) over what they own and can be pretty strict about it. One of their criteria is the use of a tripod constitutes professional photography which is a pain in the proverbial to keen amateur landscape photographers. Accredited photographers are exempt and I am pleased to say I am one of those and have been for years. the irony is that they forgot to tell me until about 2 weeks ago so now I am working like mad while we have good weather to try and catch up! Gerry On 14/07/06, Ted Grant <tedgrant@shaw.ca> wrote: > Professional to Tourist > > In some old world cities like Rome & Athens professional photographers are > charged to photograph within their historic sites. I first came across > this situation at the Forum ruins in Rome where I had intended to shoot a > number of scenes for a stock photo agency . -- Gerry Walden LBPPA Web: www.gwpics.com Tel: +44 (0)23 8046 3076