Amateur Photographer is reporting today that stock photo library Alamy is set to remove thousands of images from its database after the National Trust complained they breached its policy on picture use. Under strict rules, the National Trust bans the commercial use of photographs taken at its properties. Normally I wouldn’t have an issue with [...]
Read the rest of this post »I was exceedingly disappointed today to see an article over on Amateur Photographer about how the UK Government is continuing to encourage people to report photographers despite very little evidence that terrorists wander around with cameras taking snapshots of their targets (apart from in the movies of course). The National Counter Terrorism Security Office (NaCTSO) [...]
Read the rest of this post »It appears that with all the mess of moving the site from MT to WP I missed this! Recently the issues around photographers being stopped by the Police under anti-terror legislation was rasied and discussed at length in Parliament. Conservative MP John Randall, a keen photographer, drew MPs attention to several incidents from his Uxbridge [...]
Read the rest of this post »Whilst I recently reported on potential changes to the UK law that might affect photographers, it appears things are getting even sillier in the US with the Camera Phone Predator Alert Act (H.R. 414), which has been introduced into Congress this month. The bill’s text says that Congress has found that “children and adolescents have [...]
Read the rest of this post »The British Journal of Photography is reporting that come February 16th a new law comes into effect in the UK which could worsen the already bad relationship between photographers and the security services. The law, an amendment to the Counter-Terrorism Act, changes the rules, under section 76 of the 2008 Act and section 58A of [...]
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