Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/07/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Let them try. The threat is they have expensive lawyers who are litigation prone - will jump on anything. I was told most of the practice of law was threats. Threatening Letters etc. I also here that that was the main way Meyer Lansky and Lucky Luciano etc exerted their power. A few well chosen words spoken in an undertone. Photographers have not had to make sure someone's logo's or photo's or shop windows with supposed copyrights are not anywhere in their pictures they get represented by the ASMP and other such groups or their own lawyers. Free speech and freedom of the press and freedom of expression has done real well litigation wise in this country as well as many other country's. Even some you wouldn't think. Let them make their threats I'll be interested in how many photographers actually get slowed down by this I'm guessing it will be few. In this country there are two places you can't shoot pictures. A national bank or a military base. Other than those two places you shoot it you got it. We'll see if the Brits embarrass themselves or not. I'm hoping they won't and thinking they won't. I do every week get an email magazine from the British Journal of Photography. And very few issues go by without news of the cops there pouncing on photographers its a bit worse there than in a few other places like here. But I think the Brits will come through in the end and not embarrass themselves they are determined to have this London experience be a triumph and I'm am very pro London. Mark William Rabiner Photography http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ > From: Tina Manley <images at comporium.net> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2012 18:52:11 -0400 > To: <MUGers at yahoogroups.com>, Leica Users Group <lug at > leica-users.org>, paw > <paw at micapeak.com>, seephoto <seephoto at micapeak.com>, Olympus Camera > Discussion <olympus at thomasclausen.net> > Subject: [Leica] Rights to Olympic Photos > > PESO: > > Quite a controversy going on over rights to Olympic photos. I'm surprised > at Alamy CEO James West's strong stand on this: > > http://www.alamy.com/pressrelease/releases/archive/2012/04/30/152.aspx > > It's good to see somebody standing up for reason! > > Tina > > -- > Tina Manley, ASMP > www.tinamanley.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information