In response to concerns expressed by the NPPA the TSA has sent a letter regarding photography, videotaping and filming at airport security passenger screening checkpoints
Category: Access & Censorship
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TSA Sends Letter Assuring Photographers' Rights
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Two French Journalists Freed In Afghanistan
2 French Journalists Freed by Afghan Militants
The television journalists had been held hostage in Afghanistan for 18 months. News of their release Wednesday was the first public sign of them since a November 2010 video.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/30/world/europe/30iht-hostages30.html?_r=1
France 3 television said the reporters, Stéphane Taponier and Hervé Ghesquière, had been freed along with their interpreter, Reza Din.
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Judge Orders Ft. Lauderdale to Allow Photos Near Movie Set
Judge Orders Ft. Lauderdale to Allow Photos Near Movie Set | PDNPulse
A Florida state court judge has ordered the city of Ft. Lauderdale to quit barring photography in public places around a Hollywood film set. The emergency order, issued on Tuesday, was in response to a lawsuit filed last week by the Society of Professiona
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2011/06/judge-orders-ft-lauderdale-to-allow-photos-near-movie-set.html
They sued the city because Ft. Lauderdale police, who were reportedly moonlighting as security guards for the production of the film “Rock of Ages,” starring Tom Cruise and Alec Baldwin, were preventing photographers and citizens from taking pictures of the set from public sidewalks and streets nearby
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NPPA Advocacy Blog: Right To Take Pictures In Public
City of Ft. Lauderdale Agrees to Uphold Right to Take Pictures in Public – NPPA Advocacy Committee
The City of Ft. Lauderdale agreed on Monday not to interfere with photographers taking pictures near the set of the film “Rock of Ages.” At an emergency hearing in state court, the NPPA joined the South Florida Gay News and the Society of Professional Jou
via NPPA Advocacy Committee: http://blogs.nppa.org/advocacy/2011/06/21/city-of-ft-lauderdale-agrees-to-uphold-right-to-take-pictures-in-public/
The Agreed Court Order states that the city:
“shall not prohibit or inhibit the taking of photographs at or from any public area surrounding, near or adjacent to the film set of the production of the film, “Rock of Ages. For the purposes of this order, the term “public area” shall includ any area where members of the public have a right to be, but shall not include areas that have been lawfully closed to access by members of the public.”
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Connecticut Judges Vote To Allow Cameras In Courts
Journalists said that Monday’s decision would help the public gain a better understanding of how the state’s judicial system works.
“I applaud the judiciary on a step forward in courtroom transparency, in public understanding of the judicial process and in confidence in the courts,” said G. Claude Albert, co-chairman of the Connecticut Judicial-Media Committee and a former editor at The Courant.
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A*HOLE OF THE WEEK – APPLE
When I have to start worrying about when and where I can use my device based not on the law or the content owner (whole other issue), but on a third party manufacturer’s initiative, then I have a problem. I have a problem because we’ve gone to a whole new level of this post 9/11, quasi Orwellian society that’s being built around us
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The Navigator: Don’t shoot? But it’s a public space. – The Washington Post
The Navigator: Don’t shoot? But it’s a public space.
The Navigator examines the risks of taking photos in public places while traveling.
via Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/travel/the-navigator-dont-shoot-but-its-a-public-space/2011/06/13/AGbD5GWH_story.html
“I used to deal with one of these a month,” says Mickey Osterreicher, the general counsel of the National Press Photographers Association (NPPA). “Then it was weekly. Now it’s almost every day. Citizens are being told that they can’t take pictures out in public — whether it’s a building, a bridge or a train.”
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Apple patents mobile camera that other people can shut off
Apple patents mobile camera that other people can shut off
An Apple patent describes a system for allowing venue owners to override compliant cameras. The patent describes using an infrared signal that compliant cameras would detect; in the presence of thi…
via Boing Boing: http://www.boingboing.net/2011/06/16/apple-patents-mobile.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+boingboing/iBag
This is part of an increasing trend to designing hardware and software that allows remote parties to override the instructions of the owners and users of devices. This trend, coupled with the increasing degree to which devices are privy to our secrets, our sensitive information, and even our biological functions, worries me an awful lot.
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Ft. Lauderdale Photo Ban: Bought and Paid for by Hollywood?
Ft. Lauderdale Photo Ban: Bought and Paid for by Hollywood? | PDNPulse
Citing First Amendment violations, a Florida publisher and the Society of Professional Journalists have filed suit against the city of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida and its police chief over the city’s temporary ban on photography in a public area around a Holl
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2011/06/ft-lauderdale-photo-ban-bought-and-paid-for-by-hollywood.html
“Warning. No Trespassing. Photography of this area is strictly prohibited. Strictly enforced by FLPD. Violators subjet (sic) to arrest. City Ordinance 16-1”
City police officers are reportedly being paid by the film producers to guard the periphery, and enforce the photo ban.
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LOOK3 2011: Ashley Gilbertson’s Exhibition About Dead Soldiers Defaced
LOOK3 2011: Ashley Gilbertson’s Exhibition About Dead Soldiers Defaced | PDNPulse
The public had a strong reaction to the exhibition at the LOOK3 Festival of Ashley Gilbertson’s Bedrooms of the Fallen photographs, which show the bedrooms of soldiers who died as a result of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The photographs are being exhibit
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2011/06/look3-2011-ashley-gilbertsons-exhibition-about-dead-soldiers-defaced.html
Someone had cut the word “suicide” out of the caption under the photograph, and had carved the word “hero” into the bed depicted in the photo.
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Vandals Target Olympian Photographer's Home, Car, Damage Offices
The Olympian reports that vandals found where photographer Tony Overman lives in nearby Tumwater to intimidate him. The newspaper also reports that the perpetrators left a message with black paint on its building that said: “Overman snitch.”
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NPPA Asks Homeland Security To Keep Current Videotaping Policy
As our organization has previously stated, photography by itself is not a suspicious activity and is protected by the First Amendment. Any abridgement of a constitutionally protected activity, especially in a thinly veiled attempt to limit public discourse is highly improper.
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Photographing Presidential Broadcasts
Photographing Presidential Broadcasts
No more presidential restagings; a single news photographer drawn from the White House pool will be allowed to cover televised addresses.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/01/photographing-presidential-broadcasts/
In the future, a designated news photographer — using a heavily muffled camera — will be present in the room to record televised presidential addresses like President Obama’s announcement on May 1 that Osama bin Laden had been killed.
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Photos of presidential speeches to be captured in real time – The Washington Post
Photos of presidential speeches to be captured in real time
The White House and news photographers agree to a new plan for shooting presidential speeches.
via Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/photos-of-presidential-speeches-to-be-captured-in-real-time/2011/05/31/AGdHPhFH_story.html
The White House and news photographers have agreed to a new plan for shooting presidential speeches.
Out: staged, after-the-fact photo ops. In: a single photojournalist, who will be permitted to snap the president’s picture as he addresses the nation
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Reuters journalist detained and beaten in Syria describes torture witnessed
Ten Photojournalists Win the $10K 2016 Yunghi Grant
Ten photojournalists have been awarded $1,000 each for the Yunghi Kim grant—a grant meant to bring awareness of the importance of copyright registration.
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2016/12/16476.html
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The Problem of Washington Photo Coverage Goes Well Beyond Restagings, Stephen Crowley Argues – NYTimes.com
President Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel were clearly of two very different minds about the prospect of Israel reverting to its pre-1967 borders. The official White House photo by Pete Souza — showing the two leaders huddling outside the Oval Office on Friday — didn’t make life easy for picture editors.
By releasing this single picture, was the White House trying to convey a sense of comity? Of presidential confidence? Of a deep understanding between president and prime minister? There was no answering these questions, because no journalists witnessed the moment.
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Protests force World Press Photo shutdown in Beirut
World Press Photo has been forced to close down its exhibition in Beirut after a winning project by Israeli photographer Amit Sha’al sparked local protests
Link: Protests force World Press Photo shutdown in Beirut – British Journal of Photography
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Anton Hammerl Is Still Missing in Libya
Anton Hammerl Is Still Missing in Libya
Anton Hammerl, the South African photographer who has been missing in Libya since early in April, was not released on Wednesday, as some hoped he would be.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/19/anton-hammerl-is-still-missing-in-libya/
“Until I see him, I don’t believe any of these reports,” Penny Sukhraj, Mr. Hammerl’s wife, said by phone from London on Wednesday afternoon. “It’s just a recipe for emotional disaster.”