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Taking pictures of people in public

  • 07-10-2009 12:07am
    #1
    The_Minister
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    Was walking to the bus on O'connell Street on Monday, when I encountered a small public order incident.

    I won't go into detail, but essentially two Irish guys got into a confrontation with some Chinese workers. A physical fight was avoided, but there was much shouting.

    After this was broken up, a foreign man (dark skin, kinda middle eastern, couldn't pick out the country), started, along with his friend to film the Irish lad who was loudest. The Irish lad obviously shouted at him, and ran at him, but the foreign man kept away, and eventually the Irish guy gave up trying to stop him.
    The man then began to film the entire street, and did a slow pan of the bus stop, and all of us who were at it.
    He seemed to take a long shot of me as well.

    I got annoyed at this, but since the man was probably feeling jumpy I decided not to complain, and kept my peace.

    What I was wondering was:
    1. Did he have the right to film the man involved in the public order breach?
    2. Did he have the right to film me?
    3. What limitations are there on his use of those materials?
    4. Could I have requested that he deleted those materials?

    On a side note there was a thread on Indymedia.ie where a "fascist" took pictures of some socialists, who ran him down, took the camera off him and deleted the pictures.
    I wondered when I read it if they had any right to do that, since there was a possibility that the pictures would be used to target them.


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  • #2
    i71jskz5xu42pb
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    The_Minister wrote: »
    What I was wondering was:
    1. Did he have the right to film the man involved in the public order breach?
    2. Did he have the right to film me?
    3. What limitations are there on his use of those materials?
    4. Could I have requested that he deleted those materials?
    1. Yes - he was in a public space
    2. Yes - you were in a public space
    3. Pretty sure that he would not be allowed to use them commercially. Press & other uses would be OK.
    4. No

    This has been done a few times over on the photography forum

    http://www.digitalrights.ie/2006/05/09/photographers-rights/


  • #3
    jhegarty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,441 ✭✭✭jhegarty


    Lyle Kind Vender wrote: »
    1. Yes - he was in a public space
    2. Yes - you were in a public space
    3. Pretty sure that he would not be allowed to use them commercially. Press & other uses would be OK.
    4. No

    This has been done a few times over on the photography forum

    http://www.digitalrights.ie/2006/05/09/photographers-rights/

    Actually 4 is yes, but he would have been under no obligation to do so.


  • #4
    Victor
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    The_Minister wrote: »
    On a side note there was a thread on Indymedia.ie where a "fascist" took pictures of some socialists, who ran him down, took the camera off him and deleted the pictures.
    The photographer was engaged in conduct likely to lead to a breach of the peace, which itself is a breach of the peace.
    I wondered when I read it if they had any right to do that,
    No they didn't.
    since there was a possibility that the pictures would be used to target them.
    I think thats a bit remote to claim self defence unless they could prove that such targetting had actually been planned or carried out.


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