Re:Record police with phone camera in Boston, get arrested
by pavel_lishin on Tuesday January 12, 2010 @11:00AM
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> There are certain grey areas around national monuments though.
How so?
(And on a different note, is there a way to display text as "quoted" here on HN?)
Re:Record police with phone camera in Boston, get arrested
by mattyb on Tuesday January 12, 2010 @11:18AM
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(And on a different note, is there a way to display text as "quoted" here on HN?)
Surround it by asterisks, with no whitespace between the asterisk and the corpus.
Re:Record police with phone camera in Boston, get arrested
by brk on Tuesday January 12, 2010 @04:08PM
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I am a pro-hobbyist photog as well. I have heard stories of people being harassed in NYC for example for taking what would generally be considered "normal" photographs of buildings/bridges/monuments from either standard street-level, or in some cases slightly more artistic (but legal in the sense of not trespassing) vantage points.
From what I have seen, there is no true legal restriction from taking these photographs, but authorities either don't know this, or try to use intimidation tactics to discourage.
The "grey" area is that I don't know first-hand how all these cases have played out, and/or if there wasn't really some odd terrorist-area unconstitutional law that was being cited.
There are no statutes that I am aware of that prevent you from taking still pictures in open/public areas. There are certain grey areas around national monuments though.