Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/08/06

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Steve Unsworth PAW week 31 NOW Picturing in Paris
From: "Beddoe, Neil" <nbeddoe@lehman.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 14:42:51 +0100

I think that law in France is unique to them, at least as far as Europe is
concerned (see
http://www.presscouncil.org.au/pcsite/public/may99/privacy.html for some
good background)  In the UK, you have no rights over your image if the
picture was taken in a public place.  A newsreader's complaint against a
newspaper for photographing her sunbathing in a secluded area of a beach was
rejected because it was a public beach.  This decision was made by the Press
Complaints commission and does not have the force of law.  I have never
heard anyone winning a legal case over the use of an image in the UK, even
for advertising (though someone may have).  These type of complaints are
typically handled by quasi-autonomous commission such as the PCC and the
Advertising Standards Authority and not by the courts.  We don't have a
codified bill of rights or statutory right to privacy in the UK so you can
shoot anyone and long may it continue.

Neil

- -----Original Message-----
From: Ernest Nitka [mailto:enitka@twcny.rr.com]
Sent: 06 August 2002 14:06
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: RE: [Leica] Steve Unsworth PAW week 31 NOW Picturing in Paris


Question for the group - how pervasive in Europe is this attitude (LAW)
about getting prior approval for picture taking?  I ask because for most
street photography that I do I never ask and to think that when I finally do
get over to Paris that I will now have to ask permission or even be faced
with this task is daunting.  I understand that the Province of Quebec has
the same sort of law which has made me less enthusiastic about going there
on a photo holiday.

ernie

- -----Original Message-----
From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Daniel
Ridings
Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2002 8:53 AM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: [Leica] Steve Unsworth PAW week 31


Steve,
They're nice. They remind me of an article in the Brittish magazine "Black
and White" a few issues back. The theme article was about how it is illegal
to take pictures of people on the streets in France without their explicit
permission :) There was some kind of new law or something that just came
into effect. Probably last summer.

Daniel




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