On 25/9/04, Bob W, discombobulated, unleashed: >> Usually, you can photograph anywhere and anybody, but you canīt publish >> without permission if the person is important or dominant in the >> picture and the theme is not of any special public interest. This was >> the same before the verdict. > >that's not the way it is/was in the UK. If you take a photograph of >somebody in a public place then you don't need their permission to >pulish. Now we will have to enact this stupid ruling.
The status quo will continue, except that the justification for publishing will become more of a subjective issue, and (unfortunately) ultimately decided upon by a (subjective) judge...... Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=====| www.macads.co.uk/snaps _____________________________
