Taking Pictures is Terrorism... [WaS: Re: FW: Windows Live an d Privacy]

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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- -- "Brian Loe" <knobdy () gmail com> wrote:

> On 12/4/06, Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com> wrote:
> > You can copyright your street if you made it. If you created your house,
> > then you own the copyright to it just as you would any sculpture. You do
> > not to take any action, the copyright is automatically yours. But it's
> > up to you to enforce the copyright, if it's violated.
>
> News to me and I'm pretty sure not exactly true either, especially in
> this instance. In the US (at least) I am free to take a photograph
> from a public place of virtually anything (so long as I'm not peeping
> through your windows). If not, the tabloids would go out of business.
> Having seen many European rags - or pictures from those in Europe -
> with the same content I have to believe the laws are very similar if
> not the same.

That is not exactly true, especially with all of the paranoid
terrorism lunatics running amok. I _know_ that there have been
several instances of this [see link], but this is the only one
I can find off-hand:

 http://www.boingboing.net/2002/12/06/taking_pictures_of_h.html

Cheers,

- - ferg

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