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Comment Re:Hmmm... (Score 1) 601

Same thing in the UK..make up the law as they go along...............Young photojournalist detained for army cadet pics http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/news/1719526/photojournalist-detained-army-cadet-pics On Saturday 26 June, photojournalist Jules Mattsson, who is a minor and was documenting the Armed Forces Day parade in Romford, was questioned and detained by a police officer after taking a photo of young cadets. According to Mattsson, who spoke to BJP this morning, after taking the photo he was told by a police officer that he would need parental permission for his image. The photographer answered that, legally, he didn't. While he tried to leave the scene to continue shooting, a second officer allegedly grabbed his arm to question him further. According an audio recording of the incident, the police officer argued, at first, that it was illegal to take photographs of children, before adding that it was illegal to take images of army members, and, finally, of police officers. When asked under what legislation powers he was being stopped, the police officer said that Mattsson presented a threat under anti-terrorism laws. The photographer was pushed down on stairs and detained until the end of the parade and after the intervention of three other photographers..... .......While photographers have been clamoring for years that they are being targetted by over-zealous police officers, the issue only received national interest in December last year when a journalist for The Independent was himself stopped for taking a picture of the House of Parliament. The incident caused a media blitz, with newspapers such as The Independent, The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian and Daily Mail, as well as the BBC publishing articles on the issue of public photography. Under pressure, the Association of Chief Police Officers sent a memo to all police forces around the country informing them that they 'should not be stopping an searching people for taking photos.' The memo continued: 'There are no powers prohibiting the taking of photographs, film or digital images in a public place.' However, despite reassurances that anti-terrorism powers were not targetting photographers, police officers, since then, have continued to quote the legislation to stop photographer from working in public places. In fact, only a few days following the memo's release, award-winning architectural photographer Grant Smith was detained after taking photos near the Bank of America - Merrill Lynch building.

Comment Re:Invisibility means no readers (Score 1) 454

quote regarding the Irish News paywall scheme experience http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2010/may/28/paywalls-local-newspapers "So there's the context. Now for the substantive point. If you click on the Irish News website up comes a page demanding that you pay for access to a digital edition. There is a choice: £5 for one week's editions, £15 for a month's and £150 for a year's. The result? According to journalism.co.uk, since its launch in December 2009, the News's site has secured just 1,215 paid subscriptions: 525 weekly, 370 monthly and 320 yearly. In other words, whatever positive gloss one tries to put on those figures, they are pretty pathetic. They are miniscule when compared to the print sales, representing a tiny fraction of the paper's total readership."

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