NPPA Sues Wyoming for Threatening Photographers’ Rights with Recent Law

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NPPA Sues Wyoming for Threatening Photographers’ Rights with Recent Law

The National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) announced this week that it has joined in on a new lawsuit filed against the state of Wyoming over

via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2015/10/03/nppa-sues-wyoming-for-threatening-photographers-rights-with-recent-law/

The laws make it a crime for people to “collect resource data” (e.g. a photo) from “open land” if the person intends to submit that data to a federal or state agency. Photographers immediately reacted to the law, arguing that the overreaching terms infringe upon photographers rights.

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