Re: photo/public spaces

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From: Bill Finger (finger0101@hotmail.com)
Date: 09/20/02-12:38:54 PM Z


>From: Judy Seigel <jseigel@panix.com>
>Reply-To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
>To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
>Subject: Re: photo/public spaces
>Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 19:26:22 -0400 (EDT)
>
>
>
>On Tue, 17 Sep 2002 Argon3@aol.com wrote:
> > I suppose that it might not occur to the Brain Police that a "spy"
>wouldn't
> > make himself conspicuous by setting up a 4X5 on a tripod and going
>through
> > all of the necessary camera adjustments...he'd just pull out a
> > point-and-shoot and pop off a few frames.
> >
>
>Talk about straining at a gnat & swallowing a camel. There was an
>editorial column in yesterday's Times about the books readily available
>about how to maker sarin, nerve gas, anthrax, other forms of bio terror,
>and various explosives ... not quite professional level but definitely
>getting there, and evidently protected as "free speech" -- or whatever.
>So the little pictures of the Triboro Bridge are forbidden, go directly to
>jail. Ye gods, is there an apparachik with an IQ above room temperature?
>
>
>Judy
>
>
> > Even before this there has been a trend for some of the building owners
>to
> > try to declare the building "intellectual property" and limit the use of
>its
> > likeness.
> >
> > Argon
> >

Yes, and I also find it very ironic that a Federal Judge in Washington State
ruled that it is perfectly legal
to video tape and photograph up women's skirts in public places without
their consent. Heaven forbid someone takes a picture of a building demmed
"sensitive."

-Bill

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