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- Roberto Allende
- US Army Soldier, Police Officer, Photographer, Double A Baseball Player, Little League Umpire, Baseball & Softball Coach, Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004 Pilot.
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Photographer's Rights
"... courts have found that photography ... constitute[s] protected "speech"
under the First Amendment."
Kurt Wimmer & John Blevins
Attorneys at Law
Covington & Burling
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There is no federal law that would prohibit photography in public places or restrict photography of public places and/or structures.
National Press Photographers Association
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Courts have consistently ruled that the press has an absolute right to take photographs and video from sidewalks, streets and other public places.
Katherine Rosenberg
Daily Press, Victor Valley, California
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If you're standing on public property, you can shoot anything the naked eye can see.
Ken Kobre, Professor of Photojournalism
San Francisco State University
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You do have the right to photograph buildings you can see from the public right-of-way.
Jeff Dean, U.S. Department of the Interior
National Park Service
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You do not need to ask permission from anyone to be a journalist.
Periodical Publishers Association
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Despite misconceptions to the contrary, the following subjects can almost always be photographed lawfully from public places:
• accident and fire scenes
• children
• celebrities
• bridges and other infrastructure
• residential and commercial buildings
• industrial facilities and public utilities
• transportation facilities (e.g., airports)
• Superfund sites
• criminal activities
• law enforcement officers
Bert P. Krages II
Attorney at Law
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[T]he mere act of taking pictures or video is not unlawful and provides no basis for taking law-enforcement action against a photographer.
Christopher Dunn
Associate Legal Director
New York Civil Liberties Union
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[T]here are no laws prohibiting the taking of photographs on public or private property. If you can be there, you can take pictures there: streets, malls, parking lots, office buildings. You do not need permission to do so, even on private property. Trespassing laws naturally apply.
Andrew Kantor
Legal Rights of Photographers
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The general rule of access: As a photographer you have the right to photograph anything in a public place.
North Carolina State University
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In short, journalists have a right to gather the news, news photographers are journalists, and news photographers cannot be excluded because they report with a camera instead of a pen. News photographers should not be physically prevented from doing their job, and when their work product, in the form of film or videotape is seized, the government official seizing the film is preventing publication.
Jeffery F. Davis
Jeff Davis Photography
Door County
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You can take someone’s picture in any public setting and publish it without consequence (even if it portrays the person in a negative way) as long as the photo isn’t “highly offensive to a reasonable person” and “is not of legitimate concern to the public.” You can even publish photos if you took them on private property.
Adrian E. Hanft, III
Be A Design Group
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In general, if you are in a place with public access, you may take photographs of whatever you want, including children, bridges, buildings, homes, airports and accident scenes. What you do with those photos depends on a variety of issues, but you always can take the photograph.
Carolyn E. Wright, Esq.
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You have the right to photograph anyone or anything seen in a public place. No license is required to be a journalist. You do not need a credential or official approval to photograph a spot news story occurring in public.
Kevin Moloney
University of Colorado
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Acpo has stated previously that everyone - photographers, members of the media and the general public - has a right to take photographs and film in public places.
Chief Constable Craig Mackey, the Association of Chief Police Officers
BBC News Saturday, 23 January 2010
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These quotes are for educational and research purposes and are used under the fair use doctrine under the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code)
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