Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/05/30

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Subject: [Leica] a photographer sued
From: billcpearce at cox.net (Bill Pearce)
Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 14:23:17 -0500
References: <CDCCDD17.A6E2%mark@rabinergroup.com> <1E23A5D1-1D30-4B5F-B435-5BC9984602DB@frozenlight.eu>

So how does this come about? Generally speaking, just plain folks don't give 
a crap when someone takes a photo of their house. Is this pandering to whiny 
celebrities?

-----Original Message----- 
From: Nathan Wajsman
Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2013 2:20 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] a photographer sued

Belgium has similar laws. It does not stop me from doing street photography 
when I am in Brussels, which is quite often.

Nathan Wajsman
Alicante, Spain
http://www.frozenlight.eu
http://www.greatpix.eu
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YNWA









On May 30, 2013, at 4:40 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote:

> The reason why Brad and Angelina and many other people in the public eye
> have homes in France is its the only place on earth bar none where the 
> light
> wight bounces off your face, body or house is your property. So they can
> feel like they are in a different higher zone of privacy.
> Any other country the laws turn out to be not all that different from what
> we are used to here in the US of A. We think we are way ahead of the pack
> but I you get a new camera for your birthday or some holiday in so called
> not so free places like Iran or Iraq or a dozen other places which seem
> foreboding to free speech or freedom of the press  your can still walk
> around the block and test it out on houses, bushes and people and they're
> probably not going to hang you up and torture you. People love to play 
> with
> their cameras and the ones in their cell phones all over and for a long 
> time
> now. Its a bit of a right we get from living on Planet Earth. I hear Mars 
> is
> less of a good deal. Your camera melts.
>
>
> On 5/29/13 10:42 PM, "Adam Bridge" <abridge at mac.com> wrote:
>
>> Spot on!
>>
>> Adam
>>
>> On May 29, 2013, at 12:16 PM, Tina Manley <images at comporium.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Well, I do!   Polite people do not peek into other people's houses 
>>> without
>>> permission anytime, anywhere!  The use of long lenses or binoculars or
>>> telescopes should make it a crime.
>>>
>>> Tina
>>
>>
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