Bob, What about shots from space?
I am reminded of Barry Goldwater's comments about 'keeping your satelite signals off of my property' if you didn't want me to listen to them! Stop reflecting light into space from your property. Then those Google maps won't show anything. Regards, Bob S. On 10/7/07, Bob Blakely <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This can be a fuzzy area. Apparently the photographer was on private > property and the photos were taken of that same private property; further, > it appears that the photographer did not have permission from the owner(s) > to even be there, let alone take photographs. Now, had he taken the photos > from public property where what he photographed was easily visible to the > public, the College of Charleston Foundation would generally have no legal > standing. > > Photographers have been successfully prosecuted for going onto the property > of celebrities to take their photographs or photographs of their property > furnishings. It is an issue both of privacy and of the right of a owners to > control what happens on their property. Note that the College of Charleston > Foundation is a private organization - not public, and the owners of this > nonprofit organization have rights too. > > As far as copyright is concerned, this doesn't seem to be an issue brought > up by the foundation, but raised by the photographer's counsel. What I'm > saying is that this is probably not a copyright case and the issue of > copyright may well not come into the judges consideration. > > Look, if several of my fellows and I owned a piece of property, and we > didn't want photographers coming onto our property to take photos - for ANY > reason, or if we were conservators of the estate of someone who didn't want > photographers coming onto the property to take photos - for ANY reason, and > you did, and we found out about it, your as would be in court. It would be a > case od, "It's our goddam property, we get to control it and what happens on > it within the law and you (the photographer) are not imbued with special > privileges over others and their property simply because you have a camera > or you make your living with a camera. The issue of copyright would never > come up in court - our private property rights would. Now, if you get your > shots from off my property, I can say nothing. > > If you want to take and use shots of private places from the private places, > get permission (preferably written releases). If they say no, sorry, your > "need" for the shot(s) does not trump their right to the amount and type of > privacy they desire - on their own property. > > Regards, > Bob... > -------------------------------------------------------- > "Art is not a reflection of reality. it is the reality of a reflection." > -Jean Luc Godard > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Rebekah" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Just found this interesting, what do you guys think? > > > > http://www.thestate.com/local/story/190126.html > > > > rg2 > > -- > > "the subject of a photograph is far less important than its composition" > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > 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 [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
