Category: Access & Censorship
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Photographer's My Chemical Romance Nightmare
It has been a wild few days for freelance photographer Nichole Torpea. The 22-year-old UMSL grad was shooting the My Chemical Romance concert at the Pageant for Riverfront Times this past Saturday night when, she says, she was assaulted by a member of the band’s security team. Check it out here.
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Jeremy Brooks » If You Put That Picture On The Internet I’ll Call My Lawyer
This guy was on the corner of Stockton and Columbus in San Francisco yelling at a homeless man. Anger, conflict, drama — sounds like a great shot to me. I crossed the street but was unable to get anything interesting, since I only had my 50mm lens on the camera and I was just too…
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Photo Attorney: Photography Not Allowed – 6
Mark Harmel reports that he was detained last Friday by the Beverly Hills Police Department after taking the above photo while standing on a public sidewalk Check it out here.
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Baltimore teen arrested in Examiner photographer's assault
A Baltimore teenager was arrested early Wednesday morning and accused of assaulting a photographer from the Baltimore Examiner working on a story about school violence outside Reginald F. Lewis High School. The 18-year-old male is being processed at Baltimore City’s Central Booking facility on charges stemming from the April 24 incident involving photographer Arianne Starnes,…
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Utah Newspaper Photo Sparks Tighter Court Policy
A newspaper photo of evidence in last year’s high-profile Warren Jeffs trial has prompted a new statewide rule in Utah against photographing non-public evidence in courtrooms, the Salt Lake Tribune reported. The newspaper reported that the Utah Judicial Council, which sets policy for statewide courts, approved a rule “prohibiting news photographers from taking courtroom pictures…
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Shelby County, TN Sheriff: watch out for photographers and radical greens, they might be terrorists – Boing Boing
The Sheriff’s Office in Shelby County, Tennessee, is warning locals to turn in anyone who takes too many pictures of bridges or shopping malls, because they might be scouting for Al Qaeda, who are clearly slavering at the opportunity to make a gigantic media splash by getting up to some serious naughtiness on the “iconic…
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Dana Milbank – What the Family Would Let You See, the Pentagon Obstructs – washingtonpost.com
Lt. Col. Billy Hall, one of the most senior officers to be killed in the Iraq war, was laid to rest yesterday at Arlington National Cemetery. It’s hard to escape the conclusion that the Pentagon doesn’t want you to know that. The family of 38-year-old Hall, who leaves behind two young daughters and two stepsons,…
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Indian Premier League Cricket boycotted | Copyright Action
Earlier this month the Indian Premier League drew much heat for attempting to impose accreditation terms on photographers that required all material shot to be uploaded to IPL’s webserver, for their free use forever. Check it out here.
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NYPD cop: videoing me breaking the law is a terrorist act – Boing Boing
This video is of a man filming a cop who parked illegally in front of a fire hydrant. He follows her, asking questions, and she mostly ignores him. Then something truly disturbing happens. A retired police woman comes by and informs the first cop, and the man filming that citizens aren’t allowed to film anybody…
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Middlesbrough cops, goons and clerks grab and detain photographer for shooting on a public street – Boing Boing
Moments later as i walked away this goon jumped in front of me and demanded to know what i was doing. i explained that i was taking photos and it was my legal right to do so, he tried to stop me by shoulder charging me, my friend started taking photos of this, he then…
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Disneyland bans pictures in its parking lots – Boing Boing
Just as I took this photo, however, a Security Cast Member in a patrol unit approached me (well, he stopped a ways away and shouted through a rolled-down window) and told me photography was not permitted there. Check it out here.
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Tension Over Sports Blogging – New York Times
The dispute has grown lately between the press and organized sports over issues like how reporters cover teams, who owns the rights to photographs, audio and video that journalists gather at sports events, and whether someone who writes only blogs should be given access to the locker room. The explosion of new media, especially with…
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Lawyer: Military Only Produced 2 Witnesses Against AP Photog
The U.S. military produced only two witnesses to testify at Bilal Hussein’s investigative hearing, according to Hussein’s lawyer. In the first details to be revealed about the court proceedings, attorney Paul Gardephe says two Marines who arrested Hussein in 2006 testified against him by videoconference. The military also presented evidence including 64 CDs that contained…
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Texas authorities confiscate cell phones of FLDS women
Authorities are confiscating cell phones from women staying at Fort Concho after a newspaper story included images of the crowded conditions inside the state facility, according to an attorney for the polygamous families. Rod Parker, a Salt Lake City attorney, said that authorities have told the women to surrender their cell phones or they…
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2008 Muzzle Awards – The Thomas Jefferson Center For the Protection of Free Expression
The 2008 Jefferson Muzzles include the second recipient of a Lifetime Muzzle Award. Check it out here.
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Wearing the Red Badge
The Red Badge that I am wearing states that I must be under escort at all times (including the rest room). Jen and I find it kind of comical because as we walk by the five-foot-tall cubical walls we can hear “Red Badge” and chuckling in reply as we walk by. It reminds me of…
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AP Photographer Ordered Released After 2 Years Held In Iraq
An Iraqi judicial committee has dismissed terrorism-related allegations against Associated Press photographer Bilal Hussein and ordered him released nearly two years after he was detained by the U.S. military. A decision by a four-judge panel said Hussein’s case falls under a new amnesty law. It ordered Iraqi courts to “cease legal proceedings” and ruled that…
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Illinois Papers Win Right To Photograph High School Events Freely
A settlement between Illinois newspapers and the state’s scholastic sports authority gives papers everything they were seeking in getting close access to interscholastic competitions and the right to sell the photos to the public, the executive director of the Illinois Press Association (IPA) said Wednesday. “I’d say that’s a fair statement — we did get…
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Stadium Visitor Told To Hit Delete Button
Like a number of people without a ticket to the Nationals’ game Sunday, Mark Butler stood outside the left field gate and watched some of the historic event from a distance. The Minnesota man carried a digital camera to capture the memories. For a member of the Uniformed Division of United States Secret Service, Butler…
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Street photographers fear for their art amid climate of suspicion – Times Online
Matt Stuart photographs the unscripted drama of the London streets. Entirely spontaneous, his pictures are made possible by a combination of instinct, cunning and happy coincidence, revealing the beauty and significance of the everyday – what the rest of us see but don’t notice, moments that vanish faster than the blink of an eye. For…