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From: "Cotty"
Subject: Re: improper photog canadian style
Creeping horseshit.
There is, to the best of my knowledge, no law requiring permission from
anyone regarding photography in public places.
Our school system is publicly funded, and as such, are public places.
Consider the school's viewpoint. A car in the car park with a man in
taking pictures. If I was a teacher I would be more than interested in
the motives of the photographer, and would at least have approached to
inquire. Calling the police is a bit much, but I've seen it here as well.
The teacher has a right to be interested, but has no right to accost the
photographer or call the police, since no laws were being broken. Having
said that, a simple conversation would have been acceptable, rather than the
threats and innuendo that the fellow was doing something wrong .
You could call shopping malls public spaces, but you try snapping a few
pics of the fountain in the mall in downtown metropolitan Regina, and
I'll bet you fifty bucks a man with a pointy hat intercepts you within a
couple of minutes.
Shopping malls here are generally private property. The mall owners have
some rights about what they can allow or dissallow on their property. We
tend to try to keep chipmunks out of our malls anyway, they are destructive
pests in an urban environment.
William Robb
