At 3:21 PM -0500 5/1/06, Larry Levy wrote:
It's only a matter of time. In the UK, the national organisation
that looks after much of the building heritage has banned indoor
photography for the last decade or so. Partly for "security" and
partly to make you buy the guidebooks and postcards. The same will
happen in National Parks, although it will be more difficult to
enforce. It's their land so they make the rules.
No. Actually the National Park land belongs to the people. The
government administers it. They can set up rules that the park
rangers will find it "impossible" to enforce, and the rangers simply
won't enforce them.
Usually, there are license fees for using the land for commercial
ventures (e.g., a commercial film) and no fees for private use.
If we accept that it is OK to charge to take photographs in "public
places," by extension, we will have to pay for the right to take
pictures anywhere. Examples include: from a roadway, on a street, at
a harbor, etc. Somehow, I don't think this will happen.
Larry in Dallas
Aren't the British sites run by a non-government organisation...the
National Trust or something? I know I encountered the no photo rule
at several historic sites when I visited way back in 1985.
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Steve
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