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- From: jay@metran.UUCP (Jay Ts)
- Newsgroups: rec.photo
- Subject: Re: Photographing people; need permission?
- Message-ID: <348@metran.UUCP>
- Date: 3 Jan 93 20:03:06 GMT
- References: <24541@alice.att.com>
- Organization: Metran Technology, Tampa, Florida
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- ark@alice.att.com (Andrew Koenig) writes:
- : In article <346@metran.UUCP> jay@metran.UUCP (Jay Ts) writes:
- :
- : > 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!
-
- Perhaps you mean that the topic is open to discussion.
-
- : A photograph is a copy, which means that photographing any copyrighted
- : material requires permission from the copyright holder.
-
- By the same token, the image formed on the retina of the viewer, and the
- memory of the event also are copies. One can take the letter of the law
- too seriously.
-
- : This applies, among other things, to performances of plays, concerts,
- : dance, and so on.
-
- I suppose it is now illegal to take photographs that include any buildings,
- because the design (blueprint) is copyrighted? :-)
-
- As far as this is to be taken as a serious legal issue, it is a very hazy
- one, that IMO should be discussed in another newsgroup, if at all.
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