hurry up and photograph as many as possible before the law actually passes?

That's not guaranteed to save the day: are we certain that this law would not be non-retroactive ? It could very well be.

As I see things, there is an increasing trend of passing laws and regulations which cast a doubt on the legality of taking and sharing photographs. This effectively prevents us from doing it since we must be able to guarantee the legality of what we do, and because we cannot challenge these laws in court (I suspect that most of them could be argued to violate the spirit of the Bern Conventions).

It is very revealing of the way some countries see museums as mercantile, monopolistic companies, rather than as means to braodcast culture.

-- Rama