Not only are we alive, maybe we even helped! Looks like the Mayor's Office of Film chucked the regulations today and is starting over: http://www.pictureny.org/archives/67 http://www.nyc.gov/html/film/html/news/090107_moftb_rules_redraft.shtml
Let's stay on top of it during the next public hearing and comment period. And woo hoo! Doing a little happy dance. Cheryl Colan http://www.hummingcrow.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Brook Hinton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Even if you don't live in or shoot in NY this is so important - it's > basically a handover of everything that falls between tourist photography > and 7 figure indie films to the purely commercial sector. The outlawing of a > huge swath of media art production, documentary, citizen journalism, and > even many aspects of amateur and hobbyist photography and filmmaking - in > the very city that is the American heart of street photography. It will also > make it possible for the police to legally arrest people documenting > protests, events, and police actions - the elimination of an important > citizen check on power. > > If this happens in NY, it will get worse everywhere else too. So please > please please sign the petition whether or not you live in New York. > > Yesterday's Democracy Now had a segment on this with Jem Cohen and others > that you can access from their site. > > There is a movement to legally limit noncommercial and small scale video and > photographic work all over the country. It may be time to start a camera > equivalent to Critical Mass. > > Brook Hinton > > _______________________________________________________ > Brook Hinton > film/video/audio art > www.brookhinton.com > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >
