Fun story. Keep up the good harassment! -- Best regards, Bruce
Wednesday, September 17, 2008, 8:22:31 PM, you wrote: PJA> Part of todays adventure. A low budget movie is shooting in my home PJA> town blocking traffic on half of main street. I was walking along PJA> minding my own business, but actually armed with my trust *ist-Ds and a PJA> collection of appropriate lenses), when I decided I'd take a couple of PJA> pictures to commemorate the event, (and maybe make a couple of bucks PJA> selling the images to one of the local fish wraps), when I this scruffy PJA> individual rushes at me from the "company" and confronts me to tell me PJA> that I can't take any photos for, and I quote "legal reasons". When I PJA> asked him what I was doing wrong, he was a a loss except to explain, PJA> except to repeat his original statement. When I pointed out that the PJA> "set" was on a public road and within full view of the public, with no PJA> expectation of privacy, and that I was allowed to take photographs of PJA> anything I wished under those circumstances, his new tack was to claim PJA> that I couldn't use them for anything. I then pointed out that under PJA> fair use I could use them for non-commercial purposes which included PJA> selling them and my story to a newspaper, or printing them large and PJA> selling them as art. Which left him gasping for breath, (sort of like a PJA> large trout), at which point he went back to his original argument. I PJA> also found it interesting that they had posted a sign that stated in PJA> part the, "... passing beyond this point, indicates your assent to being PJA> in the movie...", which is patently false... Where do they find these PJA> people, and what idiot is giving them legal advice? He managed to make PJA> me furious as well. I'm thinking of going back tomorrow just to piss PJA> them off. PJA> Lousy photographs to follow. PJA> -- PJA> You get further with a kind word and a gun, than with a kind word alone. PJA> --Al Capone. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
