Dear LPG,

I am one of those people who decided to invest in a smart mobile phone and, now that I have mastered making phone calls, I have moved on to marvelling at the camera on it.  I have to say that I find something that provokes me to use my smart phone camera at least once a day when I leave the house and love looking back at my pictorial memories.

My family organised a picnic last bank holiday and while so many of us were together the cameras all came out while we snapped the action of the day.  A couple of the children were running around and I took a snap but they were close enough to another set of picnickers for them to be included in the shot, and one of them noticed me in the act.

I went up to them and explained and they were fine about it but I did start to wonder exactly what the law has to say.

In this fine country of ours nothing is simple anymore but I did take a look online.  Apparently anyone can take a picture, without needing permission, as long as the picture taker is standing on public land when doing so and no one in the picture is indecently dressed.  If you are on private property (in a shop, theatre or even someone’s house) it appears to me that you need the permission of the owner of the property and the person whose picture you are taking, and there are a whole new set of rules if you want to use the picture for advertising purposes.

I think that I cannot be the only picture taker that reads these pages and so I thought I would share some information that I found if LPG would oblige.

SP, Ladywell

SP wanted to share the following links…

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