At 06:19 AM 7/9/02 -0700, you wrote:
Oh no, not the p-word. :-) I would never invade privacy or be
confrontational when taking a picture--just if it's in public then I have a right to take the picture the same as any journalist, because I'm under the same 1st amendment laws that they are.
I think it'd be great if there were a large community of GNU FDL
paparazzi.
--Jimbo
Good point, You do have the right to say, take a picture of Paul Newman if you encounter him walking on the beach. He doesn't have the right to punch you in the nose, but he may.
If you take a short movie of him and enter it at Sundance maybe there is a legal problem or maybe not.
Of course that is why celebrities avoid the public and tend to go to certain places where that sort of situation is customarily avoided such as Aspen.
Fred Bauder