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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:26am on 2008-11-26

"I visited downtown Silver Spring on June 23rd and to test a theory about 'no photography' rules. My theory is this: 'No photography' rules only apply to stand-alone cameras -- cameras that can be seen. If you have a cell phone camera you can snap photos to your heart's content and not be harassed at all. So I took my 3 megapixel Samsung D900 cell phone camera on a stroll through Ellsworth Avenue. Up and down I snapped photo after photo, and as far as anyone was concerned I was just having an extended phone conversation, I even took a close-up of two security guards, whose function is, among other things, to stop photographers." -- Bill Adler, "Photography Banned in Downtown Silver Spring, Maryland", 2007-06-22

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posted by [identity profile] metahacker.livejournal.com at 07:01am on 2008-11-26
In NYC, my dad and I discovered another made-up edge: "no tripods". A security guard informed us we could take pictures (from a state park, of the river) but couldn't use a tripod. No good explanation given; she specifically said it wasn't because they might impede progress.

I started to ask her about bipods, monopods, etc. but just then some other guy walked by with a tripod and she ignored him, reinforcing the arbitrariness of 'the rools'.

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posted by [identity profile] madfilkentist.insanejournal.com at 08:31am on 2008-11-26
Boston's transit system has the same rule, as part of distinguishing "professionals," who need permits, from amateur photographers, who don't. It may make sense on a crowded subway platform, but in a state park it sounds more as if they just heard of the rule being used somewhere else and adopted it so they could have rules.
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posted by [identity profile] lonebear.insanejournal.com at 07:45am on 2008-11-26
Boy is that one old news. While there are still some security thugs. There has been acknowledgment that Ellsworth is public, and private cameras can not be banned.

Search silverspringsingular.com for details.
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posted by (anonymous) at 07:38pm on 2008-11-26
Boing boing has an extended (i.e. pops up every few weeks) discussion on "no-photography" laws... their basic point? It's all incredibly stupid, and generally probably actually illegal and certainly unenforceable.
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