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Posted by BMTLines on Fri May 30 23:38:35 2008, in response to Re: Union Station Photographers Rights Issue Gets Press Attention, posted by Easy on Fri May 30 23:24:58 2008. Whether or not they are allowed to make rules photographers should be allowed to protest those rules by exposing them to the press anyway. I see nothing wrong with bringing public opinion to bear on the decisions of a private company if such decisions affect the public in any way. Here you have a public station - worse even is that it is an attractive nuisance - tourists do what tourists have done ever since the camera was invented - TAKE PICTURES. It is horrible PR on behalf of the city of Washington for a security guard to bark "no photography" at an arriving tourist. Even worse is that these security guards overstep their bounds and try to stop photography OF the station from across the street. NO PRIVATE PROPERTY OWNER has the right to stop a photographer from taking a picture OF his/her property from a public street - no exceptions!!Personally my opinion is that if building owners do not want their buildings photographed then they should not build photogenic buildings and/or not allow the public to enter them. |
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