Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/02/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> Steve - let me understand this - If I go to Paris or Montreal ( only 3 > hours away) that I can take street photos with impunity for my own - > nonpublished use? Yes, that sums it up. I have not heard the authorities saying that tourist cannot take pictures. How do you define street photography compared to a snap shot? You just cannot publish without the release. sl > > I've avoided visiting Montreal for example because what am I supposed to do > while the females of the family are clothes shopping? Take photos has been > my savior for these times. That and the fact that I don't speak French > have been my hesitations. > > > ernie > > > At 09:38 AM 2/19/03 -0400, you wrote: >> > At 08:55 AM 2/19/2003 -0500, you wrote: >> > >> >> How did Cartier-Bresson (among others) manage? Are such >> >>laws only recent? >> >> >> >> Art Peterson >> >> Alexandria, Virginia >> > >> > >> > Very recent. Quebec has similar laws. >> > >> > Tina >> > >> >>...in France and Quebec it is only against the law to publish >>(books/magazines) the photos, not against the law to take them. So how about >>all the folks who are publishing French/Quebec photos on the web? >> >>sl >>-- >>To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html