Exactly. In legal terms, that is the dividing line. It's the same line
between where the police can peek freely and where they need a warrant to take
a look. Everyone has the right to an expectation of privacy in their home, and
the cops have to have a warrant to come in and look around. The same
expectation of privacy applies to the obvious: public rest rooms, the dressing
room of a clothing store, a doctor's office, etc.
But if you're out where God and everybody can see you, i.e., in public view,
including in your car or even in your front yard, and if you're doing something
really strange or interesting, I just may take your picture and dare you to do
anything about it. So, behave out there.
Walt
--
"Anything more than 500 yards from
the car just isn't photogenic." --
Edward Weston
-------------- Original message from "James N. McBride" : --------------
>
> The term I hear a lot now is "expectation of privacy" when it comes to where
> you can shoot pictures. People were taking their cell phone cameras into
> rest rooms and transmitting images of people doing their thing in there.
> That, and some other similar indiscretions, caused laws prohibiting
> photography of people in places where they should have "expectation of
> privacy". Walking down a public street is not one of those places. If you
> put a camera on your toe and shoot up a women's skirt, that is one of those
> places. If you live, you might get sued. /jmac
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx]On
> Behalf Of Walt Wayman
> Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2004 10:40 AM
> To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [OM] Re: Looking for a TOPE image
>
>
> I nearly never ask permission to shoot, nor to publish. People in public
> are fair game. There is no prohibition whatsoever against shooting them,
> and the exceptions for publication would be libel or commercial use. For
> example, if I shot Sally Sumptious leaving church and published the photo
> with the caption "Sally Sumptions leaving her job at the Jolly Time
> Whorehouse," that would be libelous. If I used her image in a print
> advertisement for Up-Tight & Right Girdles without her permission and paying
> her, that could also be trouble.
>
> << snip
>
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