Thanks for the post on this Robert, I am going to post this to my facebook (sans incriminating information) warning my FB friends on this danger
Jeff Robert Miller wrote: > While I know this is going to boil down to it happened in a public place > stop my whining... but this still upsets me and I have no legal recourse WTF > > <rant> > > A few weeks back my son, 12 years old, was at the local library after > school working on the computer when a local newspaper reporter came in > and took pictures of the people in the library using its services. The > story was regarding the fact that my county is considering closing some > of the libraries. Now after the interviews were completed and the > pictures were taken, the reporter told my kid to tell his folks his > picture would be in the paper that coming Sunday. So as any parent who > gave a flying crap about their kid would pick the paper up to look at > the article. As said to my son his picture was nice and big with his > first and last name along with a little blurb about why he don't want > the library closed. > > At first this really pissed me off since my son is under age and no one > asked for my permission, let alone offer a business card or a means to > contact anything about the article. After a few days of mumbling, and > some deep investigation I found that I have ZERO legal recourse for this > happening so I rolled with the punch and picked my self up telling my > kid he displayed himself very well and expressed himself in his > statement like a young man should. Then it hit me... > > I was on the local newspapers website and noticed my son's picture in an > article, not written the same as the newspaper itself but still > displaying my son's picture, well now I get concerned and begin to do > some digging on the metadata (thanks larry) to find misc normal data but > nothing too detailed. Then it smacked me in the face like a truck load > of bricks! Those (stealing a statement from Jack's comments earlier > just because I can :-) ) "... monkey sodomizing rat bastards..." have my > son's picture posted on the website for sale. They are selling my son's > picture for profit, WHAT IN <many fool words omitted for John's safety> > gives these people the right to make a profit off my 12 year old son! > > Well I had sent an email to a well known photographer regarding this and > he consulted his lawyer only to find these newspaper organizations can > take the pictures of children and then sell them on their website as > "fine art", while I love my kid to death he is far from "fine art". The > response this person got from their attorney was that unless a local law > prohibits the taking of children pictures in public places and selling > them I have no leg to stand on, which I have faced the fact. It just > burns my butt that a child who knows no better, well didn't at the time, > was exploited to save a library and someone else NOT trying to raise the > money for the library is making a profit off this, no matter how small > that profit might be. The attorney said if you want privacy don't leave > your home, WHAT THE HELL IS THAT CRAP, he is a child! Does this mean a > child predator can sit 100 feet from a school and take pictures of > children walking home from school, throw up a website, call themselves a > freelance photographer, and sell these pictures as "fine art". > > We can borrow money from China and bail out businesses that made bad > choices but we can protect children from the basic protection of > exploitation for any reason, so long as that reason is a sad story of a > library closing and the newspaper can sell a couple prints. > > </rant> > > Sorry all this one just really hits me hard that a newspaper / > freelance photographer has all these freedoms to exploit citizens while > we fight to protect so much... > > - Robert > arch3angel > _______________________________________________ > Pauldotcom mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom > Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com > > _______________________________________________ Pauldotcom mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com
