Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/04/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 02:30 PM 4/13/98 -0400, you wrote: >No one has the moral right to walk up to me in public, take my photograph, >and use it to sell newspapers, without my permission. Maybe not where you live, but it depends on the laws of a particular government. It's been decided here that the free exchange of ideas is more important than a person's objection to a harmless pictures, regardless if they want it to be used. But luckily for you, and most other people, most newspaper photographers will honor your wishes. But not your wish to be asked first, necessarily. That would make our jobs impossible, and our pictures much less honest, and interesting. Honest, because the person "caught in the act of being themselves" is often stifled by the awareness of being photographed. ========== Eric Welch St. Joseph, MO http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch Very funny, Scotty. Now beam down my clothes