Photographer’s Rights: US, Canada, UK, Australia
Jan 10th, 2008 by Brad
Sadly, even artists have to know their rights. These days a lot more converstations start “…you can’t shoot that” or “…what are you doing”. I get this especially when I stand in one spot for hours by my tripod.
If you want to avoid getting hassled when you are confronted about your photography. Take a look at these pages, the sites listed below have pdf’s you can print out and carry them with you:
US Photographer’s rights:
http://www.krages.com/phoright.htm
and…
http://www.kantor.com/useful/Legal-Rights-of-Photographers.pdf
Canadian Photographer’s rights:
http://ambientlight.ca/laws.shtml
UK Photographer’s rights:
http://www.sirimo.co.uk/ukpr.php
Australian Photographer’s rights:
http://4020.net/words/photorights.php
Here’s a good film about how filming from the public, in public spaces, can actually be a good thing, in Northern Ireland of all places. ‘Policing the Public Gaze’, http://www.worldbytes.org/programmes/013/013_004.html