Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/05/22

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Subject: RE: [Leica] model releases etc.
From: Dan Cardish <dcardish@sympatico.ca>
Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 22:43:36 -0400
References: <200105222325.TAA19465@kahlua.abacom.com>

You're making it sound as if the Quebec situation regarding photographing
people in public is a bad thing.

dan c.

At 07:26 PM 22-05-01 -0600, Tim Atherton wrote:
>>
>>                 I also wonder how it is that the National Assembly
>>                 has not interfered with this situation yet to set the
>>                 rules from Parliament rather than from the courts.
>>
>
>because those Quebecois take after the crazy French and their Napoleonic
>code and the National Assembly themselves chose to have a Right to Privacy
>enshrined in their Charter of Rights. The Courts were merely enforcing what
>was set there by the Assembly. I recall that the Supreme Courts dissenting
>arguments basically made this point - but there was nothing they could do
>about it...
>
>Tim A
>
>

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