Testing photography rules in Miami metrorail system

[P. J. Alling]

On 7/5/2010 6:56 PM, Igor Roshchin wrote:
> http://reason.com/blog/2010/07/02/ignorance-of-the-law-is-no-exc
> (for more detail read each of the linked blogs.
> Ledford's blog is actually a funny read.)
>
> Igor
>
>    
The only time I've ever been told I couldn't take photographs recently 
was when a Gofer, (probably an "Associate Producer"), got in my face 
about about photographing a movie crew shooting in front of the local 
coffee shop for the movie "Harvest."  My response was a bit heated but 
polite.  I pointed out that they were filming in a public space and that 
I was shooting from a public space, and that I could pretty much take 
any photos I wanted.  His next tack was to say "Well, you can't use them 
for anything!"  So I explained using small simple words that under fair 
use, I could publish them as Art, use them to advertise my skills or 
sell them to the local newspaper along with my story.  Which by the way 
was becoming more and more interesting the longer he was giving me 
shit.  I then asked his name and took his picture, at which time he 
evaporated in a whiff of acrid smoke.  I guess not all publicity is good 
publicity.

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