Every Man a Paparazzo

"Governments love to place cameras on street corners to keep track of unruly citizens, but prefer to reserve for themselves the right to take pictures," notes blogger Todd Morman. As a corrective, he posts links to several sites that spell out the rights of private photographers.

Comments

[fyodor]

The American Indians had it right: photographing steals your Soul!! (Well, that is if any of them really ever thought that....)

[joe]

Here is liberal Massachusetts, a cop was caught on audio tape harrassing some poor guy he pulled over. The guy brought the tape to the police station, naively thinking that abusive, unprofessional behavior by a uniformed police officer on duty and caught on tape would result in disciplinary action. The cops arrested him for violating a wiretapping statute (depsite the fact that a camera in the cop's car was recording the entire incident as well.) The Supreme Judicial Court upheld the conviction.

As a government employee, I am pleased that the public does not have the right to make records of what I do when I'm on the clock.

Bastards.