that's a very disappointing story - I was expecting to see someone showing their bottom repeatedly. The type of people they hire are asses, in both senses of the word.
Bob > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of P. J. Alling > Sent: 18 September 2008 04:35 > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: Photographer harassed by unidentified Ass. Producer. > > 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. > > -- > You get further with a kind word and a gun, than with a kind > word alone. > --Al Capone. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly > above and follow the directions. > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
