Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/07/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Of course someone in public being photographed has the ~right~ to say "no". They are simply wrong in their assertion that the photographer has no right to photograph them. That's the beauty of freedom of speech: we have the right to be wrong! <vbg> cheers, frank Eric Welch wrote: > You would be correct on the first point, and incorrect on the second. If you > are in public, you have no right to say no. Because you have no right to > tell me what I can and can't photograph in public. To keep from being > photographed, stay out of the public eye. > > The right to photograph trumps your right to privacy because the former is > more important for the free exchange of ideas, thus protected by the first > amendment. I am limited in how I can use those photos outside of the > "marketplace of ideas." If I take them to the marketplace of mammon (my > wallet benefits), it's a whole new set of rules, and your right trumps mine. > > At least here in the States that's how it works. > > Eric Welch > Carlsbad, CA > http://www.jphotog.com > > On January 24, 1209, after defeating the town of Beziers, near the > Mediterranean coast, the French army is faced with how to tell which > inhabitants are "damned heretics," and which are "good Christians." Simon IV > of Montfort comes up with his infamous solution: "Kill them all, for the > Lord will know his own." > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- "I don't believe in God, but I do believe in pi" - Henri Cartier-Bresson - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html