Talk:Photography and the law

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[edit] Defending this article

Erm yes - okay. Well, I'm not especially wedded to this article (basically I created it to find a place for some content which didn't belong on another page) but I also feel that there is not reason eplictely why laws relating to public photography are any more or less deserving of an article about alcohol laws, etc. --Neo (talk) 21:23, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

I have gone ahead and removed the speedy deletion request. --TeaDrinker (talk) 22:12, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Copyright issues

Would this article be an appropriate place to address copyright issues -- that is, the ownership of photographs? I'm thinking of the kinds of topic represented by the following posts from BoingBoing: Condo association vs photographers; No cameras, copyright-protected area. Wbakker2 (talk) 20:41, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Potentially - its still a very new article so there will be some natural evolution of the direction it takes. I'd like to avoid going into issues relating to completed works as I'm sure that those are covered elsewhere, but in terms of laws relating to the taking of photographs then that's definately something I personally would be interested in reading about here. --Neo (talk) 23:17, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Videotaping / Wiretapping

It seems now there are a few accounts of people being arrested for filming through wiretap laws in the United States

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/june2007/120607Wiretapping.htm

Should probably be added somewhere.