I should really read these things before I hit send. Corrections in text.
Part of todays adventure.
A low budget movie is shooting in my home town blocking traffic on half
of main street.
I was walking along minding my own business, (but actually armed with
my trust *ist-Ds and a collection of appropriate lenses). I decided
I'd take a couple of pictures to commemorate the event, (and maybe make
a couple of bucks selling the images to one of the local fish wraps).
Suddenly this scruffy individual rushes at me from the "company" and
confronts me to tell me that I can't take any photos for, and I quote
"legal reasons". When I asked him what I was doing wrong, he was a a
loss except to explain, except to repeat his original statement. When
I pointed out that the "set" was on a public road and within full view
of the public, with no expectation of privacy, and that I was allowed
to take photographs of anything I wished under those circumstances, his
new tack was to claim that I couldn't use them for anything.
I then pointed out that under fair use I could use them for
non-commercial purposes which included selling them, and my story to a
newspaper, or printing them large and selling them as art. He was left
him gasping for breath, (sort of like a large trout), at which point he
went back to his original argument.
I also found it interesting that they had posted a sign that stated in
part that, "... passing beyond this point, indicates your assent to
being in the movie...", which is patently false, to avoid legal
problems they still need signed releases from anyone who shows up on
camera.
Where do they find these people, and what idiot is giving them legal
advice? He managed to make me furious as well. I'm thinking of going
back tomorrow just to piss them off.
Lousy photographs to follow.
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You get further with a kind word and a gun, than with a kind word alone.
--Al Capone.
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