[LINK] We?re all copyright criminals now

[Adam Todd]

At 11:28 AM 22/11/2006, Stewart Fist wrote:
>Over many years in TV reporting, I have never had anyone try the "copyright"
>ploy to stop me filming, and if they had tried I would have had their claim
>framed to hang on he wall alongside the framed letters from peeved
>politicians.

Ahhh a man of passion :)

>However I've had dozens of police, security-guards, and local-council
>officers try to stop me filming/taping by using either the "you are on
>private property" ploy, or the "obstruction of traffic" claim.

Yep, I've had them tell me on my OWN property in my OWN home!  Bugger that 
I now broadcast everything on the net in real time!

>Whenever I was threatened in this way, I'd just zoom back to a wide-shot and
>pan around 360 degrees for evidence as to the level of obstruction/trespass,
>and invite them politely to sue or charge me.

Yep :)  Done that too.

Question:  If the Opera House a public place?

They are stopping people with cameras filming there now.  I was abused 
horribly by security there one day whilst I was taking shots of the Harbor 
Bridge and the sky.

Apparently it's not "a criminal offence" to take video or photos of the 
Opera House.  (yeah right!)  Something to do with the material being used 
for Terrorists the blow it up.  (Yeah right as if! Haven't they heard of 
Google Maps!)

>No one ever did.

No, they don't.  But they try damn hard to keep the material you shoot out 
of court when they are defendants.