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Posted by BMTLines on Tue Jun 3 21:41:28 2008, in response to Re: Union Station Photo Rights Issue Gets POLITICAL, posted by Nilet on Tue Jun 3 20:54:56 2008. Photographers' rights are a personal freedom, and therefore supporters thereof would fall on the left of the social scale. Position on the economic scale is largely irrelevant. Therefore, such people could range from economic left-social left (liberals) to economic right-social left, or people who would be called "libertarians."The members of the photo clubs I belong to are both liberal and conservative. I tend to be libertarian believing as I do in maximum personal freedom as well as some libertarian economics like re-privatizing the subways. If I had my druthers all bridges, tunnels, airports, and turnpikes would be privatized as well. Also I hate the fact that the government builds and/or subsidizes sports arenas. OTOH I am not opposed to government programs like Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, student loans, CUNY, SUNY, etc. and I am not opposed to most environmental and safety regulations either. Admittedly, many of the people who support photographers' rights seem to be towards the left of the economic scale as well. I have some ideas as to why there are relatively few libertarians supporting photographers, but I don't see the need to be even more provocative than I have been already. Perhaps there are very few libertarians who are involved in the hobby. What I am finding is that this is more of a "self interest" issue. Those who are seriously interested in the hobby and/or low budget pros are very much interested in the issue. Those who largely bought cameras to take snaps of their kids birthday parties and show them ad-nauseum to everyone who visits couldn't care less about the issue. |
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