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BigRich · 24-01-2008, 04:59

This winds me up, I'm a security officer myself and had the unfortunate task of moving people on with cameras.

Many shopping centres have copyright to worry about, think of it like this: you see someone take a photo with body shop in the background and it ends up in an advert for Boots the chemist a rival. Instant Copyright violation. I had to move on everyone, video cameras, mobile phones and everything between. Its par for the course now.

As for terrorism thats a load of rubbish when you have Google Earth piping virtually live sat images of every corner of the planet right into your living room. In a crowd of people i'd be more worried of a terrorist with a small easily concealable compact camera than some chap with a DSLR.

Police hassling DSLR users they want to watch the ones with mobiles and compacts first.

24-01-2008, 04:59	#3 (permalink)
BigRich New here Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Woking UK Posts: 48	Re: Clarify the laws surrounding photography in public places This winds me up, I'm a security officer myself and had the unfortunate task of moving people on with cameras. Many shopping centres have copyright to worry about, think of it like this: you see someone take a photo with body shop in the background and it ends up in an advert for Boots the chemist a rival. Instant Copyright violation. I had to move on everyone, video cameras, mobile phones and everything between. Its par for the course now. As for terrorism thats a load of rubbish when you have Google Earth piping virtually live sat images of every corner of the planet right into your living room. In a crowd of people i'd be more worried of a terrorist with a small easily concealable compact camera than some chap with a DSLR. Police hassling DSLR users they want to watch the ones with mobiles and compacts first.