Teen photographer - ignorant guards and police

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Originally Posted by BrianShaw

I was tempted to photograph/video a cop the other day. He was driving like a moron because he was yakking on a cell phone, showing pictures on his phone to his partner in the passenger seat... all the while making hand gestures that included every word in the Italian dictionary. I'm glad I resisted that temptation... but it probably would have been so good it would have gone viral on Utube.

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Over here we do. http://youtu.be/rMphhd8QCwA

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Originally Posted by Darkroom317

They also can cite copyright of architecture as they did with me once.

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They can but they would be wrong. A photograph of a building is not a copy of it. Even if it were, it would likely be the architect who owned the copyright, not the owners.

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Originally Posted by Darkroom317

Copyright of the buildings and logos of the stores is something that I am not sure of either.

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You can photograph them as much as you like. It's only when you publish them that you might have a problem and most likely only then if you misrepresented them. Companies put their logos on show in public for a very good reason. So they can be seen. They are not going to worry about the logo appearing in someone's photograph unless it is in some way defamatory.


Steve.

In Canada, buildings can only be copyrighted for the purposes of reproduction - thus, I can take a picture of your building (and reprint it in books/online/magazines/etc.) but what I can't do is use the pictures to erect a duplicate of the building across the street. Buildings have no expectation of privacy and thus can be photographed as much as you want. As long as I am not trespassing, I can all of the pictures I want of any structure and if caught trespassing, it is the trespassing that is the issue, not the taking of the photos.

However, as it is a mall in Canada, they can refuse to permit photos but they have to clearly identify this when one enters the mall and they never have permission to make you delete/destroy them without a judge's order. Because - if it is illegal to take pictures, you are destroying evidence of a crime; if it is not illegal, they can't force you to comply just because they want to.

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Originally Posted by h.v.

security cannot confiscate film, digital media, or camera equipment

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That is the problem. They can do whatever they want in USA, especially if they are stronger than you and have a club, or gun. Later, when you are beat up in jail it is your own responsibility to get out of jail and to sue them at your own expense.

I thought I was reading something from India or France, but then observed it is Canada. Canada! Of all places.
If it was a journalist from a local newspaper, would he/she have been treated the same? Or is it because the RCMP and guards perceived a teenager to be a nuisance worthy of taking down?
In Australia the police and guards would have been given a hiding through the courts, only they use tasers here somewhat indiscriminately.

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Originally Posted by Poisson Du Jour

In Australia the police and guards would have been given a hiding through the courts, only they use tasers here somewhat indiscriminately.

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Over here, plod are a little more selective...Blind Man Tazered :eek:

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Originally Posted by paul_c5x4

Over here, plod are a little more selective...Blind Man Tazered :eek:

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That report is just terrible, absolutely terrible. The poor man probably didn't see it coming and that makes it all the more traumatic, as he said, like grabbing an electricity pylon. Just awful.

I doubt the kids story because his film and camera was never taken and also he has a hobby of following the police and photographing them.. Maybe the kid kept getting in their way so the police got pissed off.

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Originally Posted by Jim17x

Maybe the kid kept getting in their way so the police got pissed off.

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Perhaps, but the police still have to operate within the law.


Steve.

Maybe they were afraid he was photographing for Al-Qaeda.