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- From: ark@alice.att.com (Andrew Koenig)
- Newsgroups: rec.photo
- Subject: Re: Photographing people; need permission?
- Message-ID: <24541@alice.att.com>
- Date: 3 Jan 93 16:15:22 GMT
- Article-I.D.: alice.24541
- References: <1993Jan2.224731.20546@afterlife.ncsc.mil> <346@metran.UUCP>
- Reply-To: ark@alice.UUCP ()
- Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill NJ
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- In article <346@metran.UUCP> jay@metran.UUCP (Jay Ts) writes:
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- > In the U.S., at least, you would be breaking no laws by doing this (but I
- > hear things are different in Saudia Arabia...). You have the legal right
- > to photograph anything you have the legal right to see with your own eyes.
-
- Hogwash!
-
- A photograph is a copy, which means that photographing any copyrighted
- material requires permission from the copyright holder.
-
- This applies, among other things, to performances of plays, concerts,
- dance, and so on.
- --
- --Andrew Koenig
- ark@europa.att.com
-