Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/04/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Robert - I live in the US - Northern California to be specific. I suspect that some of the schools (this incident was at our local high school) have gotten very sensitive to copyright issues in the last few years due to the pressures against them for allowing downloads of music (i.e. Napster) over their networks. Hence, I wasn't going to get into an argument with them about the letter of the copyright law; but rather that they were enforcing where no rights were actually asserted. In contrast to this situation, I have been to many professional baseball (MLB) and football (NFL) events in stadiums in the US where the leagues hold the copyrights on the game "performance". In those cases, they assert their rights more reasonably - i.e. not for commercial use, and you can shoot photos as you desire for personal use. Yin -----Original Message----- Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 13:22:43 -0400 From: "Robert Beaudoin" <bussbearm@aei.ca> Subject: [Leica] Taking photos during school play To: <lug@leica-users.org> > What country are you living in? I did take hundreds of photos of my kids > on stage in various school plays and have never encountered such bizarre > > rule! What country are you living in? > > Best, > > Robert (Un chevalier sans blason)