CCTV - Where do i stand legally?

mobileron

So a photographer can take photos of a crowd at a football stadium,then put them online. How does this work?

I had some problems with village louts so took some video,was then told by a stupid PCSO that this was illegal,told him he was wrong and to phone his boss.
This was the same PCSO who wanted to give a ticket to a friend from Spain for having no British tax on his car.

shaun_from_Africa

mobileron wrote: »

So a photographer can take photos of a crowd at a football stadium,then put them online. How does this work?

That depends on the circumstances.
Legally, there is nothing stopping anyone taking photo's in a public place (although there are a few exempted areas and buildings) and then circulating or selling those photographs.
If the stadium is not a public place (which is likely to be the case) then the owners have the right to say that photography is not allowed or if allowed, the images can't be sold on.

aau1

was the antisocial behaviour taking place on your property?

Murphybear

shaun_from_Africa wrote: »

That depends on the circumstances.
Legally, there is nothing stopping anyone taking photo's in a public place (although there are a few exempted areas and buildings) and then circulating or selling those photographs.
If the stadium is not a public place (which is likely to be the case) then the owners have the right to say that photography is not allowed or if allowed, the images can't be sold on.

I think you would have a lot of women up in arms if you take photos of their small children and posted them for the whole world to see. If this is not illegal perhaps it should be

shaun_from_Africa

Murphybear wrote: »

I think you would have a lot of women up in arms if you take photos of their small children and posted them for the whole world to see. If this is not illegal perhaps it should be

Why on earth do you think it should be illegal?
That would mean that if I took photographs of my kids at their school sports day and there were any other children in the pictures, I couldn't then share those photographs with friends and relatives.
Why not also make it illegal to take any photographs in public places in case the photographer is really a burglar and is eying up which house to rob next?

Yes, there are a few perverts about but there are already plenty of laws that prohibit the taking and publicising of obscene or provocative images and all that doing what you suggest would achieve is to criminalise people who have nothing nefarious in mind when using their camera.

Paul_DNAP

Just bear in mind though, if the anti-social idiots you filmed recognise themselves, they will also recognise where the location is and will be able to pinpoint which camera filmed them reasonably easily, and may well engage in some uncontrolled vigilante actions of their own.

couriervanman

aau1 wrote: »

was the antisocial behaviour taking place on your property?

Paul_DNAP wrote: »

Just bear in mind though, if the anti-social idiots you filmed recognise themselves, they will also recognise where the location is and will be able to pinpoint which camera filmed them reasonably easily, and may well engage in some uncontrolled vigilante actions of their own.

Just be careful as always a chance of a broken window or worse