Comments on: Freedom to take snaps http://www.positionrelative.com/2006/07/25/freedom-to-take-snaps/ taglines are for the weak Fri, 12 Dec 2008 07:57:12 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: scottbp http://www.positionrelative.com/2006/07/25/freedom-to-take-snaps/comment-page-1/#comment-8 scottbp Wed, 26 Jul 2006 02:13:47 +0000 http://www.positionrelative.com/2006/07/25/freedom-to-take-snaps/#comment-8 Hey thanks Adrian, that is a really useful link... explains some of the pecularities of Australian law well. Hey thanks Adrian, that is a really useful link… explains some of the pecularities of Australian law well.

]]> By: Adrian http://www.positionrelative.com/2006/07/25/freedom-to-take-snaps/comment-page-1/#comment-7 Adrian Wed, 26 Jul 2006 01:27:22 +0000 http://www.positionrelative.com/2006/07/25/freedom-to-take-snaps/#comment-7 This is truly silly. Andrew Nemeth at 4020 has provided a <a href="http://4020.net/unposed/photorights.shtml" rel="nofollow">comprehensive guide to the law relating to photography in NSW</a>, with some further commentary on the Southgate nonsense. Key quote: <blockquote>Although property owners may use "reasonable force" to evict people, they can never threaten violence ("assault"), detain you at length ("false imprisonment"), push you around & seize your camera or film ("battery"), or even force you to delete digital files ("coercion"). Rent-a-cops, supermarket clerks, shopping centre managers and even customers at a Haldon Street Cafe in Lakemba should take careful note of this.</blockquote> This is truly silly.

Andrew Nemeth at 4020 has provided a comprehensive guide to the law relating to photography in NSW, with some further commentary on the Southgate nonsense.

Key quote:

Although property owners may use “reasonable force” to evict people, they can never threaten violence (”assault”), detain you at length (”false imprisonment”), push you around & seize your camera or film (”battery”), or even force you to delete digital files (”coercion”). Rent-a-cops, supermarket clerks, shopping centre managers and even customers at a Haldon Street Cafe in Lakemba should take careful note of this.

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