At a couple of sessions at the American Library Association Midwinter
Meeting (from which I've just returned) there were notices outside the
meeting room saying that the session was being filmed and that by
passing the notice and entering the room you accepted that your image
might end up in the resulting recording and that this was ok. (I forget
the precise wording, as you can probably tell!)
I've also seen this during location filming (San Francisco) and a US
colleague to whom I mentioned this confirms that this is the normal way
of handling these rights for location filming in "public" places (and
where the location hasn't been temporarily closed). It's quite common in
downtown Chicago, for example - around the Loop area.
Of course, this is within a US context, and I've no idea how closely the
situation or law matches that in the UK. But I thought it might be of
interest.
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Karen Blakeman said - in whole or part - on 16/01/2008 13:29:
> I agree entirely with what Charles has said. There are also some
> organisations that do not allow their employees to be identified on a
> photograph. For example, there are the obvious companies and their staff
> who could be targeted by activists, and I know of several government
> departments and associated organisations who have such a policy.
>
> It does make things difficult if you are taking photos of an event. For
> example, the photos that we (UKeiG) have put up on Flickr of our stand
> at Online 2007 show the stand to be either empty or populated only by
> UKeiG members staffing the desk. A couple of people have commented on
> this. "Didn't you have any visitors to your stand?" they ask. We did -
> hundreds and hundreds!
>
> We have a policy of asking the permission of everyone who appears in a
> photo before we load it onto the web. At Online, this would have meant
> either:
>
> a) asking people beforehand for their permission, with the result that
> everyone starts posing or trying to hide and we end up with a very
> stilted photo
>
> or
>
> b) Stopping everyone from leaving the stand after we have taken the
> photo and asking their permission. And if someone refused that was the
> end of that photo and a lot of time wasted.
>
> We decided to take the easy way out and take photos before the
> exhibition opened.
>
> Karen
>
>
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