Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/05/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Pascal, Actually you're wrong. In the US one can take a photo of anyone in public and display it, sell it or whatever. I did it all the time not just with weddings, but with people who hated me taking their photos, ex: Demi Moore, Ted Turner, Bruce Willis, Barbara Streisand, and others. The legal terminology used is "does the person have a reasonable expectation to privacy" and in ANY public venue (street, church, anywhere but their private property) the answer is no and has been backed up by case after case. Maybe I'll take a picture of you in secret grocery shopping. HEY, anyone wanna buy a photo of Pascal?? - -- Thomas Herbert (915) 546-2342 iphoto@elp.rr.com www.portfolios.com/thomas.herbert > From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us (Leica Users digest) > Reply-To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 17:19:08 -0700 (PDT) > To: leica-users-digest@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: Leica Users digest V20 #25 > > It is not allowed to publicly display images of identifiable persons unless > they have given their prior consent to it (which, from your posting, I > gather to be the case). > > I have the impression that all to often photographers are abusing this > simple rule when I wander around and see wedding pictures hanging in their > shop window... If only people were more aware of their rights... :-)