General Chat

Kenze... we lived in Europe for about 8 years (with DH's job) and visited many countries. That was in the days before digital cameras, so we have loads of albums & more photographs in boxes!

I'm not giving them back. :-)

'We live in an era when the camera is omnipresent. It is a constant presence not just in the lives of politicians and stars who live in the spotlight but it records so much of the backdrop of our lives.

Whenever anyone disappears, for example, the police can often release final pictures of them taken by one of the thousands of miscellaneous security cameras that record our daily lives'.

(# Excerpt from a newspaper.)

Scozz, if they are of Australia, then you don't have a problem. Unless of course Australia decides to join the EU. :-)

I'll have to hide all my photo' albums

:-(

Re Errol's question - I expect as a commercial organisation they will have the necessary licences. Especially if they have street views of France and Italy.
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It is the people who innocently put things on Facebook (and perhaps Keepsafe and Ancestry) that will be most affected.

Just don't put your pictures on facebook or whatever and no one will ever know you took them.

Unless one of your family tells someone and then maybe you'll be in big trouble.

Wikipedia is worried

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_Panorama_in_Europe_in_2015

I wonder what impact this has on streetview in Google Maps.

Nudge

Done

Andy's Mum, I hope it will. These petitions do have a good effect sometimes if enough people sign.

Good heavens, whatever next! Like you, photography is a hobby of mine too Ann. As more and more gets built, there will be less and less places you can take a photo if this goes ahead.

Artists use their photos as reference material for doing paintings so what are they to do?

Petition signed.

I hadn't heard of this, but it must be very difficult to enforce.

Think of all the people who have had their photo taken on the steps of The Parthenon, or standing by The Eiffel Tower.

I don't use Facebook, but I have plenty of friends who do, so I will sign your petition. Do you think it will have any effect?

You beat me to it Ann.

This is what I was going to put:

There is a law called Freedom of Panorama which means that if you take a photo and there is, say, a public building in the background that would require a licence to photograph for commercial use, then you have not broken a law if you upload it onto Facebook.

This rule applies in most of the EU with notable exceptions being France, Italy and Greece.

Only just having read about it I wondered what other members might know about it, especially those who take a lot of photos in France.

https://juliareda.eu/2015/06/fop-under-threat/

Done...

I just signed the petition, "European Parliament: Save the Freedom of Photography! #saveFoP @Europarl_EN."

I think this is important. Will you sign it too?

Here's the link:

http://www.change.org/p/european-parliament-save-the-freedom-of-photography-savefop-europarl-en