Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/05/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]it is... Tim A > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Dan Cardish > Sent: May 22, 2001 7:44 PM > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: RE: [Leica] model releases etc. > > > You're making it sound as if the Quebec situation regarding photographing > people in public is a bad thing. > > dan c. > > At 07:26 PM 22-05-01 -0600, Tim Atherton wrote: > >> > >> I also wonder how it is that the National Assembly > >> has not interfered with this situation yet to set the > >> rules from Parliament rather than from the courts. > >> > > > >because those Quebecois take after the crazy French and their Napoleonic > >code and the National Assembly themselves chose to have a Right > to Privacy > >enshrined in their Charter of Rights. The Courts were merely > enforcing what > >was set there by the Assembly. I recall that the Supreme Courts > dissenting > >arguments basically made this point - but there was nothing they could do > >about it... > > > >Tim A > > > >