"(not quite so) Fat Sam" <samandjanet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
message news:ftambm$dbc$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> If I wanted to take journalistic photos of an event in the UK, what
would
> I need to consider from a legal point of view?
>
> Okay, some background on the event...
> Plans are afoot to dig a whopping great quarry in the heart of the
village
> where I live.
> The villagers are completely opposed to it.
> The parish council say they're opposed, but they don't seem to be doing
> anything very much apart from having closed doors meetings where the
> public
> aren't invited.
> I have established a website to give the villagers a single unified
voice
> and bring our plight to the attention of the world.
> Part of running this site will involve publi****ng regular re****ts of
> meetings and things like that.
>
> Now, the parish council have finally called a public meeting in the
> village
> hall this coming Saturday, and invited the village to attend.
> I plan to go along with my camera and an MP3 recorder to get photos and
> interview people for the site, and also to get photos and a re****t of
the
> meeting.
>
> I'm anticipating objections to my photographing the parish councillors
and
> the event in general.
> Do they have any right to damand that I stop photographing the event?
>
> If they do make this demand, what possible comebacks can I use?
>
> Could I get away with telling them that the site is pulling nearly 2000
> hits
> a day, and that if they're opposed to the site, then in the spirit of
free
> journalism, I'm left with no option but to publish that as a story on
the
> front page, and in doing so point out that by taking a stance against a
> website that objects to the quarry, they are in effect taking a stance
> against the feelings and opinions of the entire village?
>
> The village hall, as I understand it, is a public place...
> Does a parish council have the right or power to impose a photography
ban
> there?
>
> --
> http://www.SavePentney.co.uk
> The online campaign to stop the quarrying of minerals in Pentney village
They cannot stop you, if you are on public land.
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