Re: bad law -- or is it??

[Don Roberts <droberts@xxxxxxxx>]

As I understand it, this law was designed to prohibit people from using 
camera phones to photograph others in locker rooms etc.  Has this now 
been expanded to include all public spaces?  Existing law seems to cover 
the situation where you photograph someone you think looks like a dork 
and then air the photos.  As you know, you can't use those photos for 
commercial purposes but you also can't use them to expose others to 
ridicule, I believe.  These laws have always been hazy, hard to 
interpret and even harder to enforce.  Any time freedom of expression 
may be invoked the scene gets chaotic.  Would you repeat the wording of 
the law?  I'm not sure it was all that clear in the first post.
Don

lookaround360@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Gregory,
>
> I'm not sure of your point and my question wasn't intended to start a philosophical or political debate (much
> as I love that sort of thing).  I'd just like to be armed with facts when confronted in public places taking
> pictures of strangers or whatever. I know what the rules used to be but now I'm concerned that some security
> person or paranoid will pester me. If fellow photographers see trends in public opinion about their rights
> changing then that is worth discussing. Most things can be resolved with a little public awareness. 
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> > -------- Original Message --------
> > Subject: Re: bad law -- or is it??
> > From: "Gregory Stempel" <fyrframe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Sun, May 09, 2004 9:05 am
> > To: "List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students"
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> > when you please is when you live alone on a rock in the middle of
> > nowhere.<<< Even that rock is probably owned by someone else.
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> > I am in constant amazement at how often we humans convert something
> > intended for good to something allowing us evil. Who are we exactly?
> >
> > Take care,
> > Gregory david Stempel
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