Comments on: The Best Thing to Do as a Photographer is to Stick Up for Your Rights http://www.chuqui.com/2007/11/the-best-thing-to-do-as-a-photographer-is-to-stick-up-for-your-rights/ Typing Without A Net Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:24:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Philip Hodgetts http://www.chuqui.com/2007/11/the-best-thing-to-do-as-a-photographer-is-to-stick-up-for-your-rights/comment-page-1/#comment-1283 Philip Hodgetts Mon, 19 Nov 2007 17:33:43 +0000 http://www.chuqui.com/2007/11/the-best-thing-to-do-as-a-photographer-is-to-stick-up-for-your-rights/#comment-1283 It's actually fairly simple, and well established law that if you are in a public place you have no right of privacy. If you want privacy, do not be in a public place. That's the law, so yes, you could take a picture of the person who doesn't want you to; or the children with their parents wanting you to. But there's law, and there's common decency and I think the latter is a reason to not take a picture of someone who doesn't want to have their picture taken. But if they are only peripheral to the shot - it's a building/shape/group, then their only redress is to remove themselves from the shot, not to prevent the photographer from getting the shot. Cheers Philip It’s actually fairly simple, and well established law that if you are in a public place you have no right of privacy. If you want privacy, do not be in a public place.
That’s the law, so yes, you could take a picture of the person who doesn’t want you to; or the children with their parents wanting you to. But there’s law, and there’s common decency and I think the latter is a reason to not take a picture of someone who doesn’t want to have their picture taken. But if they are only peripheral to the shot – it’s a building/shape/group, then their only redress is to remove themselves from the shot, not to prevent the photographer from getting the shot.
Cheers
Philip

]]> By: bg http://www.chuqui.com/2007/11/the-best-thing-to-do-as-a-photographer-is-to-stick-up-for-your-rights/comment-page-1/#comment-1284 bg Mon, 19 Nov 2007 08:31:26 +0000 http://www.chuqui.com/2007/11/the-best-thing-to-do-as-a-photographer-is-to-stick-up-for-your-rights/#comment-1284 +1, I had to unsubscribe from his blog after a while, so fed up with the posturing. +1, I had to unsubscribe from his blog after a while, so fed up with the posturing.

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