August 04, 2007
NYC withdraws aggressive plan to limit picture-taking
New York City officials have backed away from a plan that could have required tourists and independent filmmakers to get permits and take out $1 million in liability insurance before taking pictures, the New York Times reports.
The proposed rules aimed to regulate (and stop, in most cases) any group of two or more people using a camera for more than half an hour, or tripod use if five or more people were involved (which alarmed even city birders who sometimes travel in packs with tripods.)
NY1 reports that the Mayor's Office of Film plans another draft of the rules, but this time will take the the strong public comment into consideration.
In 2005, the city dropped a plan that would have prohibited all picture taking in the subways. Though it wasn't until 2006, at the insistence of the NY Civil Liberties Union, that the NYPD agreed to stop harassing people using cameras in the subway.
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August 4, 2007 06:21 AM in Etceterology
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