Could the EU take away your freedom to take photos on holiday?

Is this another one of those 'straight bananas', 'compulsory hard hats for circus performers' or 'children playing conkers will have to wear protective goggles' type stories?

..all of which turned out to be myths by the way.
 
She said her draft report attempted to harmonise the freedom of panorama across the entire European Union. She wrote: "Unfortunately, the members of the legal affairs committee turned this proposal on its head by adopting the most restrictive amendment," which was tabled by French MEP Jean-Marie Cavada.
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what a surprise....

tis ridiculous... I mean taking a picture of some iconic building - sorry but it is rather prominent and in a public place, the owner or archetecht doesn't require royalties because someone took a photo of their creation

the only angle I can kind of sympathise with slightly here is the people who take photos of artwork and sell on as artwork - i.e. banksy grafitti - tis perfectly legal to sell banksy prints as they're just photos of walls in London, Bristol etc.. on the other hand it isn't like he's asked the owners of the walls for permission and it is in a public place so meh... people can exploit it and sell banksy prints without any money going to the actual artist

edit this sort of thing has been proposed before, I'd hope it doesn't actually get taken too seriously by too many MEPs though
 
A controversial amendment "considers that the commercial use of photographs, video footage or other images of works which are permanently located in physical public places should always be subject to prior authorisation from the authors or any proxy acting for them"
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That's a 'no' then.
 
The article itself quotes this as being for commercial use, so why it's labelled up as being brought in to stop you taking holiday photos is beyond me.
 
Moses said:
No. It would be for people making a commercial gain.
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Or like the article says uploading to Facebook or Twitter in which you give them the right to use your pictures commercially.

Which you would now be unable to do and so couldn't upload them
 
Lopéz said:
The article itself quotes this as being for commercial use, so why it's labelled up as being brought in to stop you taking holiday photos is beyond me.
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Since social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter are commercial, and require their users to sign away rights allowing them to use their images in promotion of the website, that would make it illegal in the EU, and subject users to copyright infringement, if they posted their holiday photos without permission.
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Uploading pictures is not the same as taking them anyway. You can take all the pictures you like
 
Lopéz said:
Uploading pictures is not the same as taking them anyway. You can take all the pictures you like
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Don't let the facts get in the way of another anti EU rant Lopez. It is important we build a credible anti EU case based on dodgy facts and hearsay people accept as true without bothering to check!
 
[TW]Fox;28288408 said:
Don't let the facts get in the way of another anti EU rant Lopez. It is important we build a credible anti EU case based on dodgy facts and hearsay people accept as true without bothering to check!
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Please remember you're in GD before spouting your "common sense" dogma ;)
 
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