Re: Brinworld: Streisand sues amateur coastal photographer at californiacoastline.org

[Major Variola (ret)]

At 10:00 PM 5/30/03 -0400, Tyler Durden wrote:
>You think that's bad?
>
>I know someone who was offerred $1,000 a night to play lead trumpet for

>Streisand. When he heard that a major requirement was that he was not
to
>"lock eyes onto Streisand" (ie, look at her), he declined the offer.

Who cares?  That's a private transaction.  Neurosis is not criminal.
You can hire Streisand to sing on the condition that she keeps her nose
up your ass,
so long as its a mutually consensual transaction.

But you can't use the threat of violence (ie law) to coerce photogs
publishing what
anyone can see.  *That* is the point.

Re: Brinworld: Streisand sues amateur coastal photographer at californiacoastline.org

[Tim May]

A couple of ironies here...

On Friday, May 30, 2003, at 01:46  PM, Major Variola (ret) wrote:

Barbra Streisand has filed a lawsuit against an amateur photographer,
claiming he is violating her privacy by displaying a picture of her
bluff-top Malibu estate on a Web site designed to document erosion and
excessive development along California's 1,150-mile coastline.
The lawsuit filed in Superior Court in Santa Monica, besides seeking 
$10
million in damages, asks retired software engineer Kenneth Adelman to
remove the image of Streisand's mansion from the 12,000 photos he has
posted on http://www.californiacoastline.org. Adelman and his wife,
Gabrielle, have been snapping pictures for months from their helicopter
to show the splendors of the coastline and what they consider
environmental threats.
Adelman is a resident of the same small town I live in, Corralitos. He 
has gained a lot of justifiable fame for his clever idea of digitally 
photographing, with accurate GPS readings, the entire California 
coastline. One can imagine all sorts of uses, including doing image 
comparisons, calculations of rates of sand movement, vegetation changes 
(e.g., in sand dunes), and, of course, various kinds of economic 
development.

The second irony is that just today I took my first flying lesson, in a 
Diamond Katana composite/carbon single-prop plane. I took off from the 
Watsonville Airport, which is, I assume, the home airport of Adelman.

(I don't know if I'll continue all the way with flying, but I have a 
second lesson coming up in a few days.)

--Tim May
"Ben Franklin warned us that those who would trade liberty for a little 
bit of temporary security deserve neither. This is the path we are now 
racing down, with American flags fluttering."-- Tim May, on events 
following 9/11/2001