Re: Photography and the Law

"Cynic" <cynic_999@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> On Fri, 9 May 2008 12:20:00 +0100, "The One" <someone@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>
>>>>I've been to numerous catherdrials which insist of you paying a 
>>>>copyright
>>>>fee, for photographing inside. Again I never pay and take photos
anyway.
>>>>There is no such thing. A church albeit sacred is a public place so 
>>>>again
>>>>they can sod off.
>>>
>>> It is NOT a public place at all. It is private property . They have 
>>> every
>>> right to prosecute you. It is your sort of attitude that ruin's it for

>>> the
>>> rest of us.
>>>
>>
>>The church my friend is open.
>
> So is a supermarket.  That doesn't mean that it is a public place.
>
> -- 
> Cynic
>
>


Uhm!

While definitions may vary, for most purposes a "public place" is defined
as

including any place to which the public have access as of right or by 
invitation, express or implied.

-- 
Peter