ralphchadkirk
Established Member
What would be helpful is if someone could either create or find a photographic law factsheet, printable to be shown to authorities if any issues were to arise. I have looked, but perhaps not hard enough as I couldn't find anything. Can anyone help?
Yes, there are. I will link to it lower down.
Why should I have to waste time writing what the law says when I've been asking others on here to do the same thing to justify their misguided opinion?
Misguided? I think it is you that is misguided, or just misunderstood. Perhaps you would like to tell Linda Macpherson LL.B, Dip. L.P., LL.M how she is absolutely wrong on this, and you are correct as she states in her UK Photograpers Rights guide the following:
http://www.sirimo.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/ukphotographersrights-v2.pdf
Clearly Linda Macpherson LL.B, Dip. L.P., LL.M has made the whole thing up in some sort of conspiracy to stop photographers as Jon would no doubt believe :roll:The law surrounding invasion of privacy has developed rapidly in recent years. Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights gives everyone the right to respect for his private and family life, his home and his correspondence. The Convention rights are taken into account by the UK courts in determining any cases that come before them. As this area of the law is changing and developing, it is hard to be certain about what will and what will not amount to an infringement of Article 8.
The use of long lens to take a photo of someone in a private place, such as their home, without their consent, is an invasion of privacy even though the photo is taken from a public place.
For images of people in public places, the key seems to be whether the place is one where a person would have a reasonable expectation of privacy and the courts have greatly extended the areas where this might be the case. A court has held that the right of privacy of a child might be infringed by the taking and publishing of a photograph of him with his parents in a public street.
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Photographers are therefore advised to be careful when taking photographs intended for some kind of publication, even when the subject is in a public place. Photographs taken of people at public events are probably still permissible, at least for the present. The general advice is to get consent, and preferably written consent, wherever possible.
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Don't try and back paddle. This is exactly the reasons I said it depends on the circumstances and what your trying to photograph.
It was you that came out with the carte blanche statement of saying its ok to photograph anything private as long as its taken from a public place.
Perhaps you would like to post the law that supposedly says you can do it.
Unfortunately Jon is guilty of his own charge has he hasn't (unlike me) managed to back any of his posts up except with hearsay or opinion.