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Possible Australian restrictions on Photography?
I raise this question in all innocence as an amateur.
Who do members feel should own a photograph depicting a person?
If the answer is 'the person' unless he/she gives away ownership
completely, then the aggrieved subject can find a remedy in the civil courts.
This would also apply if the subject set some limit on the republication rights
by specifying how the photo can be used.
Secret photography - photographs taken in changing rooms at gyms, swimming
pools etc
must be regarded as wrong because people choosing to use changing rooms and
cubicles do so because they want privacy. Scotsmen who wear kilts are entitled
to keep secret of whether they are wearing Y front or jock straps as also women
who wear skirts and dresses.
A celeb or Cinderella who chooses to go to the ball without wearing a skirt
has no grounds for complaint if someone takes of photo of her knickers. If
someone lies out in the sun topless in private property be she a starlet or a
granny she is entitled to similar privacy as if she was in a cubicle at a pool,
but if she sits out on a public beach in a state of undressthen she has given up
her claim to privacy.
Michael
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