Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/06/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hello, Having heard a lawyer of a big media company on this issue I would to like to share my knowledge - just to complicate matters a bit more. Am 30.05.2002 22:01 Uhr schrieb "Christer Almqvist" unter <chris@almqvist.net>: > I _think_ , at least in Germany, it is not as simple as that with > taking a photograph of a stranger in a public place. If you want to > take a picture showing just the stranger, then that is a no-go if the > stranger does not want to be photographed. Public place or not. He > holds the right to pictures of him. If he is part of a street scene > like a demonstration, then what you photograph is Zeitgeschichte > (history of the moment) and not primarily him, and nobody can legally > prevent you from taking photos in that situation. There may be > illegal means to prevent you though...... (I recently discussed this > with a high ranking police officer waiting for a demonstration to > pass by.) That would be easy, but if Nathan took a portrait of a person on the Oktoberfest where you can see on the picture that he "targeted" this one person on the Fest - it is no historical document and you will have to ask this person for allowance to use his picture. With children it is even worse: You can't take a picture showing him or her even if you asked the kid - you will have to ask the kid's parents for allowance - no matter where they are. There are German photographers that always carry forms where they ask people to sign. Oh - I didn't introduce myself to the LUGgers: I'm 31, living in Hamburg, trying to earn my money as a journalist. And I am proud owner of a M6 (classic) and Rokkor2,8/28, a 2/50 and 4/135 (which I almost never use). And I am working to put some more of my pictures to the Leica Gallery (http://www.leica-gallery.net/alex/). I just visited Leica at Sollms with a photographer we are going to do a feature for a newspaper about Leica/the M7/modern myths and fans. So, I hope that's enough information on me and I also expect to be able to show you some more works of mine. By the way: Are there more luggers in Hamburg or northern Germany? Alex Hermes_journalist@mac.com - -- "El suenõ de la razón produce monstruos." Goya - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html