Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/18

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Subject: [Leica] Beware HCB Wannabes
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:10:45 -0400

> Big brouha here in Burlington about a street photographer who (supposedly)
> broke the public etiquette and was banned from all stores in our downtown
> walking mall.
> 
> Makes me think twice before I pull out the Leica or Rollei at the 
> coffeeshop
> downtown...(or: shouldn't have sold that WINTU angle finder for my IIIf 
> last
> month...;-))
> 
> Original Story:
> http://7dvt.com/2010photographer-banned-taking-pictures-church-street
> Follow Up:
> http://www.7dvt.com/letters-response-photographer-banned-church-street
> Other:
> http://discarted.wordpress.com/2010/03/12/vt-photographer-banned-from-mall/
> http://discarted.wordpress.com/2010/03/16/update-vt-photographer-retires/
> Jan
> 
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If it ever got to court which if course it never would the photo enthusiast
would clean up against the Church street consortium issuing "universal"
trespass against him for practicing his photography.
When people get real stupid about the evil photographers  or evil
photography we need do just clean up and sue the blazes out of them. If he
was less of an amateur he would have the ASMP backing him with their
lawyers.
http://asmp.org/
Free speech usually wins out.
Its easy to get cynical about how things go down around here but attacks
against free speech usually in the guise of "privacy"  non laws gets shot
down in the higher courts every single time. I remain optimistic.
We're up against rent a cop mentality.

[Rabs]
Mark William Rabiner





In reply to: Message from wanderjan at gmail.com (Jan Decher) ([Leica] Beware HCB Wannabes)