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**Smittoh** · 06-04-2009, 11:05 AM

I said only for companies that do it on a large scale and it has a dam good reason, to protect the privacy of the citiziens.

So how do you define a company on the large scale? Am I able to take a picture of your house? What if I have 5 people in my company, what about 500, what about 5,000?

I'm a photographer and if I see something I want to take a picture of, I take it! I can legally take your picture when you're out in public (anywhere you do not have an implied sense of privacy) and use it for whatever I want barring any financial gain by me (that would require a simple model release forum).

People need to realize that they lose their rights to privacy once they leave their house. I'm sick of people that think "Oh you can't take a picture of me." Bottom line is once you start restricting the photography of people and places soon you are restricting much more. It starts off as no pictures, then no video, then no paintings, no music, ect until you're living in well, China.

(BTW, no offense to anyone in China, I was just using that as an example of a government that is (IMO) very restrictive of its people.)

06-04-2009, 11:05 AM	#43
Smittoh Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 627 Senior Member	I said only for companies that do it on a large scale and it has a dam good reason, to protect the privacy of the citiziens. So how do you define a company on the large scale? Am I able to take a picture of your house? What if I have 5 people in my company, what about 500, what about 5,000? I'm a photographer and if I see something I want to take a picture of, I take it! I can legally take your picture when you're out in public (anywhere you do not have an implied sense of privacy) and use it for whatever I want barring any financial gain by me (that would require a simple model release forum). People need to realize that they lose their rights to privacy once they leave their house. I'm sick of people that think "Oh you can't take a picture of me." Bottom line is once you start restricting the photography of people and places soon you are restricting much more. It starts off as no pictures, then no video, then no paintings, no music, ect until you're living in well, China. (BTW, no offense to anyone in China, I was just using that as an example of a government that is (IMO) very restrictive of its people.)
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