Re: FW: Windows Live and Privacy

["Brian Loe" <knobdy () gmail com>]

On 12/5/06, Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah
<rMslade () shaw ca> wrote:
> You're both right--but, of course, you're talking about different things.
>
> Alan is talking about copyright, Brian, and he is perfectly correct, even in the US.
> There are plenty of instances of companies that are very vigorous in enforcing
> their IP rights, going so far as to ban photography of certain areas or items.
>
> Brian, you're talking privacy, and those issues do differ substantially.  Another
> poster noted that you can request video footage from surveillance cameras in the
> UK, and figured that it was basically the same thing as was going on with
> Microsoft, only Microsoft was more convenient.  I think it is, which is why I will
> be very interested to see what happens when MS tries to film in Canada.  We've
> been much more restrictive in terms of surveillance cameras.  In BC, there is a
> certain area of Vancouver where the store owners have been trying to get the
> police to put in surveillance cameras, and the courts have said no way.  (In
> another city, the store owners have been able to get the police to put up cameras.
> The courts have [twice, if I recall correctly] told the cops to take the cameras
> down, but so far they are still operating.)

I'm still talking copyright law. I have spent a little time
photographing the building of the new IRS, H&R Block and Sprint
(stadium?) here in downtown KC. No one has even looked twice at me.
I'm also hoping to someday to a rooftop photography project, with the
subjects being buildings. I've seen THOUSANDS of photographs SOLD
COMMERCIALLY of the sculptures on top of the convention center
(http://www.kcconvention.com/). No laws have been broken, no
copyrights infringed (and no Solly, the sculptor was not paid for
those photographs of his work - nor is any other sculptor that I've
ever heard of - and, in case you didn't know it, KC is one of the
largest Art markets in the states and my gay uncle owns a very popular
gallery here so I've spent some time in the environment).

As for privacy rights: you do not have a RIGHT to privacy in PUBLIC
areas, any more than you have a right to be free of other people's
opinions. PERIOD.
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