Bob Talbot <BobTalbot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> Charles Siegel - France, June 2004 >> Is that what our French friends are at... Nice mono shot of some > kids >> playing(?) in the street. I wonder what they are discussing .. > "Shall we go >> and mug that bloke with the camera... who does he think HE is? ... > Taking >> our photo.... That will be 200 Euro! > > Many a true word is indeed spoken in jest. > > Photographing passers by in France is, legally, not a good thing to > do. Children, even streetwise little tikes like these, riskier still. > > People have a right to privacy: taking that away is surely a bigger > crime than the "copyright" ones we all bemoan. It's not quite so clear that people running around in public have a reasonable expectation of privacy. -- David Dyer-Bennet, <mailto:dd-b@xxxxxxxx>, <http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/> RKBA: <http://noguns-nomoney.com/> <http://www.dd-b.net/carry/> Pics: <http://dd-b.lighthunters.net/> <http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/> Dragaera/Steven Brust: <http://dragaera.info/>
