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09/08/2009 12:08:34 AM · #51 |
Originally posted by nshapiro:
Just got back after an 8 hour drive today...I'll have to catch up on the thread and then I'll post some VERY REVEALING photos of all the secrets Pittsburgh is holding.
BTW - I wrote a note to the mayor too via their website. I will say that no REAL policeman hassled me at all walking around taking pictures. I did a lot of walking around in the Oakland area, and that was fine. It was only downtown Pittsburgh. |
As long as you were on public property, I'd have told the rent-a-cops to F$&# Off and offered to call the real cops myself.
If I were you, I'd write to the building's management and mention how much lower your opinion of their operation and the city in general is after your experience |
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09/08/2009 02:12:23 AM · #52 |
interesting article. I roll my eyes at the things people try to sue over.
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09/08/2009 03:43:27 AM · #53 |
Originally posted by LalliSig:
As a foreigner, it´s threads like this that have made me as a photographer boycott the USA as a whole, and I know I am not the only one. |
I'm sure everyone is grieving over your decision to boycott the USA. Personally, I'm simply devastated.
Where's a box of Kleenex when you really need one...?
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09/08/2009 11:56:21 AM · #54 |
Originally posted by ericwoo:
While I really don't want another argument (seriously this time), don't you guys see a bit of hypocrisy coming from the photographer side of the argument here? Its their building and they whomever [i]they[/] are, do not want their building photographed. I cannot count the number of times that some whiny, amateur photographer has posted here and other threads on how their photo has been 'stolen' and used without their permission. You guys are saying that, since it is in a public place, you should be able to copy their art and architecture and use is how you please. If you post your art on public sites and public venues, why does the same thought process not apply? After all, it is in public...right?
I have only ran into that issue once here in Atlanta. The SunTrust building, my favorite building here, forbids photos to be taken on their premises. No big deal, as the better shots of the structure are from across the street, but that is their policy. I have had guards hassle me once or twice, then only to point out that there would be no issues if I'd just cross Peachtree. That seems to be an appropriate right, does it not? I absolutely do not agree with the policy, but I feel like the same thought process canapply to their artwork as applies to mine?
Thoughts? |
If we were talking about the inside of a building, or a view that was only available from their property, I would have to agree. If you stick a building up where a picture can be taken from a public vantage point, then it is fair game. Much like a celebrity out of the town. You cannot reproduce and entire book, but you can reproduce the cover, under fair use doctrine. I feel this is what should apply to pictures of buildings. Now as soon as you step onto their property, then I believe they have the right to control your taking of images.
As a corollary of using images. You cannot reproduce their picture of their building. Nor can you reproduce their building. Oh, wait... Vegas does that all the time. But just because one person took a picture of a mountain, it does not mean that no one else can.
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09/08/2009 12:37:34 PM · #55 |
too funny... you always have your sleeve :)
Originally posted by Mick:
I'm sure everyone is grieving over your decision to boycott the USA. Personally, I'm simply devastated.
Where's a box of Kleenex when you really need one...? |
Message edited by author 2009-09-08 12:39:39.
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09/08/2009 12:38:19 PM · #56 |
Day #3. Check.
Any you Pitsburgenian blacklegs spotted Simms lurking around? |
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09/08/2009 12:39:57 PM · #57 |
Originally posted by BeeCee:
As a non-American looking in, the general impression I get of the US is of a country becoming extremely paranoid and increasingly unwelcoming. The image it brings to my mind is of a miser sitting at a table with a pile of coins gathered protectively in his encircling arms, darting frightened looks over his shoulders while muttering, "Mine, all mine!" |
You image of the miser is good, with one really big problem. There are no more coins- China has them all. |
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09/08/2009 12:44:42 PM · #58 |
you should have stood up for your rights as an american. too many people don't - and that's why you got taken advantage of. no sense of complaining about your own mistake IMO.
Message edited by author 2009-09-08 12:44:51.
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09/08/2009 03:22:54 PM · #59 |
Originally posted by raish:
Day #3. Check.
Any you Pitsburgenian blacklegs spotted Simms lurking around? |
Still not going.. I tell you, I will stick by this.
I might even email the Pittsburgh Planet - or whatever their local rag is called.
I can see the headline.
"British Protest Against Militant Pittsburgh Police Dept."
With a picture of me underneath looking suitably angry with my camera hanging by its strap from my neck - pointing at Pittsburgh on a map of the USA.
Message edited by author 2009-09-08 15:24:04. |
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09/08/2009 03:29:30 PM · #60 |
We're hosting the G-20 Summit in a few weeks, so it will take quite a protest to make the newspaper nowadays. We'll have more than our share of nutjob anarchists descending on the city, which is freaking a lot of people out already.
Originally posted by Simms:
I might even email the Pittsburgh Planet - or whatever their local rag is called.
I can see the headline.
"British Protest Against Militant Pittsburgh Police Dept." |
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