Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/01/31

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Subject: [Leica] Photographic Freedom
From: images at comporium.net (Tina Manley)
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:38:43 -0500
References: <1EE0CA83-E971-455C-B1BA-63F3CD37F165@me.com> <17ED9AE7-7D34-420D-BD99-231CF2377418@frozenlight.eu>

Alamy will stop you.  They have recently removed all photos of signs
indicating the underground in London and all photos made in and of National
Trust properties in England.  As soon as it becomes illegal to profit from
photos of specific sights, Alamy will remove the photos from their
collection.

Tina

On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 2:08 AM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at 
frozenlight.eu>wrote:

> I wonder how they would police that in practice? E.g. I am an amateur, so
> I take my pics for private purposes, but then later decide to upload them
> to Alamy. How can they prevent that?
>
> Cheers,
> Nathan
>
>
-- 
Tina Manley, ASMP
www.tinamanley.com


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