Does this apply to being stoppend and searched by the police? Can you
photo an officer who does that to you?
> Of course the definition of 'public' is rather fuzzy, with many
> quasi-public spaces such as Broadgate in the City of London and Canary
> Wharf, being two examples of what appear to be public spaces, but which
> you can be stopped by private security for taking photographs.
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> James Field
> Doctoral Candidate in Urban Public Space
> King's College London / Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
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> On Monday, 29 August 2011 at 18:58, JONES, Owain wrote:
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>> Hi folks
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>> To briefly revisit a discussion that took place on this forum a year or
>> so back, I noticed that the photographer Martin Parr was quoted in the
>> press as saying
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>> “you still have the legal and moral right in this country [uk] to
>> photograph anyone in a public place and do what you like with it.”
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>> cheers
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