Comments on: OK, do amateurs now need a permit to shoot in NYC? NO!!!! http://www.photoinduced.com/631/ok-do-amateurs-now-need-a-permit-to-shoot-in-nyc-no/ The first stop in your photographic life. Sun, 12 May 2013 12:14:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Billie Jean Redemeyer http://www.photoinduced.com/631/ok-do-amateurs-now-need-a-permit-to-shoot-in-nyc-no/comment-page-1/#comment-43466 Billie Jean Redemeyer Sat, 04 Aug 2007 22:46:44 +0000 http://www.photoinduced.com/archives/631#comment-43466 Thanks for this information Damon. Assuming I read correctly, the issue is whether or not a photographer can take pictures in public, or at public events without such a permit.
I have personally encountered a frustration with the EAA Fly-In held in OSH Kosh every year. I have not gone, specifically because they do not allow photographers to take pictures commercially, and assert that all photography must be for “personal use” and not sold commercially. They have the legal right, since their event is “copyrighted”, and they have a license and royalty agreement for those who care to pay. I love everything the EAA stands for except this caveat, which seems silly to me, but then I do not know the reason behind it.

The issue of photographing someone (where they are clearly recognizable) remains a separate issue, and a “no-no”, unless, of course, one procures a model release. I am OK with that and believe that we need to respect others the same way we would want to be respected.

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