On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 07:50:43AM -0600, William Robb wrote.. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: > Subject: Re: Permits may soon be required to shoot in NYC > > > > This suggested legislation is in response to pros shooting ads and > > editorial without permits. It happens a lot in New York and sometimes > > causes problems with traffic and/or crowds. I doubt that a wandering group > > of PDMLers would experience any problems. > > That might depend on if some security goon (as an example) decided that he > didn't want to be photographed, or didn't want his building to be > photographed. If this is enacted, he would have a real, bonafide law at his > disposal to harass photographers with. > Any time you allow a law to be put in place that has the potential to > restrict someone's freedom, someone else will abuse said law to the > detriment of someone else's freedom, if for no other reason than because he > can. > If the law was intended to restrict the actions of professional > photographers/videographers who cause traffic problems, the legislation > would be specifically targetting them in it's wording. > > This is another example of the creeping horseshit that is permeating > society, and another small freedom falling unnoticed by the wayside. > Soon, we won't have any small freedoms left.
You can still seek asylum in Europe. I've been shooting, tripod and all, lots of public buildings in Berlin, even inside the main trainstation, federal buildings etc. Nobody will harass you there. Police looks at you and walks off smiling. It appears US legislators are loosing sight of what they are trying to achieve. At least to my untrained (untrained in the legal sense) eye. A sad thing. Wilko -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
