OT: Photographer Being Sued

[P. J. Alling]

I believe you're wrong on that. You might be able to trademark the image 
of something. Which will limit the use of images of it in some ways,In 
fact the Colt Firearms Co. has trademarked the Blue Dome of their former 
building, and no one else is allowed to use it in connection with gun 
manufacture or gun sales, but that's really a very limited control of 
the image. You can't copyright a work of nature, and the copyright on 
any the buildings on the Plantation if it ever existed at all has fallen 
into the public domain. His crime is trespass plain and simple, if he 
had permission to be there, and had a camera with him, then that 
permission had to be revoked, (or given with stipulations to begin 
with), for even that to be the case.

graywolf wrote:
> Well, as to the legality, one does not have the right to sell images of someone 
> else's clearly identifiable property without their permission. One does have the 
> right to take the photos, without violating any laws of trespass, it is selling 
> the images that is questionable. One would assume that the right to the income 
> from ones own property is clear, otherwise I want every one on the list to send 
> me rent. regardless of who owns the property they live on <GRIN>.
>
>
> Jack Davis wrote:
>   
>> Mr Ham had no right to do what he did. "Private" property rights should
>> always be respected especially when privacy is to be compromised by
>> being held up to the world to see.
>> "Privacy" and "security" are too closely related these days.
>> That being said, I'm somewhat ambivalent about being restricted from
>> taking pictures of something which is on private property, but from a
>> public property position.
>>
>> Jack
>> --- Rebekah <rg2pdml at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> Just found this interesting, what do you guys think?
>>>
>>> http://www.thestate.com/local/story/190126.html
>>>
>>> rg2
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