In this age of social media and ubiquitous photography, what are your rights as a photographer? What privacy laws do you need to be concerned with?
OlenderFeldman LLP was interviewed by Dave Johnson of Techhive.com about the rights and obligations of photographers, especially concerning privacy:
First, the good news: Most people, most of the time, can simply take pictures and not worry about what is legal and what isn’t. As a general rule, you can use a camera to take photos in public—on streets, on sidewalks, and in public parks—without restriction. As Aaron Messing, an attorney at OlenderFeldman LLP, puts it, “What can be seen from public can be photographed.”
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[However,] [e]ven in the United States, Messing notes, photography can be prohibited around military locations and sensitive energy installations. And it gets more complicated from there. Remember that you can’t shoot on private property with the same impunity as in public. And sometimes it’s not easy to tell.
Read the whole article over at Techhive.
