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Which Board? => Main Forum => : CarlRadford February 16, 2007, 07:52:52 AM
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Guys and Girls
I know no more than is copied below!
I think that it is in everyone's interest to sign up to this. Looks like Government are trying to stop us taking any images in public places according to this!!! There's a petition on the Downing St website against the Government's proposals to restrict the use of photography in public areas. Sign up to the petition now......
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Photography/
Cheers, Carl
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Thanks for the heads-up Carl. I'll see if I can find out anything more...
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Gordon Brown is my local MP so I have asked him to look into it! ;)
Petitions are good but contacting your local MP is also very effective if it's done in volume. Places like upmystreet.com can find your MP if you tap in your postcode.
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I can't believe the UK is also hopping on this bandwagon!
Here, in Canada (or at least in my province), the regulation is set towards "image rights".
All this can lead to very strange situations... and make it nearly impossible to shoot anything worthwile and not get into trouble.
Here an article about a local photographer who went to the supreme court on the subject only to lose... Worth reading and very short.
http://www.montrealmirror.com/2005/080405/news1.html
Do watch out so that the elected officials don't go through the same route...
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MMmmmm fascinating but where will it all end!
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I've signed, despite not really liking giving them my email and address...
It looks like all of Magnum's UK contingent are on the list of signatories, but then Cartier-Bresson himself couldn't stop the French government implementing severe restrictions on public photography years ago.
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It's about as daft as anything else this lot have come up with, so no change there. :(
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George W as a lot to answer for eh?
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hello
Having just read the webiste of the man who set this petition up, seems this might be all a bit over the top -dont get me wrong I totally agree with the sentiment, but as he states -there is no such bill in the offering.
You can read his webiste here http://phooto.co.uk/rights.shtml
"These are the reasons why I have raised the petition at http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Photography/, and although there is no bill in the offing, it is vitally important that politicians such as Mr Livingston are fully aware of the basic rights UK citizens have, and that changes to restrict our use of cameras would require very fundamental changes in UK law. "
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The thing with this "official" petition site is that it's essentially a means of targeting government PR - lots of people sign the petition against, say, ID cards and then each one gets an email "from the PM" explaining why they're wrong.
Given that, it might actually be better for this to be a pre-emptive petition since a) there's no standard government line for them to feed you, and b) by the time a bill has come into existence it might be too late to do anything about it. There is certainly a tendency to restrict camera usage - either for placating "paedogeddon" type tabloid headlines, or pointless anti-terror measures like the ban on the tube - at the same time as we've become the most heavily surveiled country in Europe, so it's probably worth putting out an organised counter statement of some sort.