Comments on: Next thing you know, it’ll be illegal to open your eyes in a public place http://stigmergicweb.org/2006/05/09/next-thing-you-know-itll-be-illegal-to-open-your-eyes-in-a-public-place/ I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly - Michel de Montaigne Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:43:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: Protecting the children … from their right to communicate! at StigmergicWeb http://stigmergicweb.org/2006/05/09/next-thing-you-know-itll-be-illegal-to-open-your-eyes-in-a-public-place/#comment-3785 Protecting the children … from their right to communicate! at StigmergicWeb Thu, 11 May 2006 22:52:43 +0000 http://stigmergicweb.org/2006/05/09/next-thing-you-know-itll-be-illegal-to-open-your-eyes-in-a-public-place/#comment-3785 <p>[...] Portfolio « Next thing you know, it’ll be illegal to open your eyes in a public place [...]</p> […] Portfolio « Next thing you know, it’ll be illegal to open your eyes in a public place […]

]]> By: Alec Couros http://stigmergicweb.org/2006/05/09/next-thing-you-know-itll-be-illegal-to-open-your-eyes-in-a-public-place/#comment-3755 Alec Couros Thu, 11 May 2006 02:18:07 +0000 http://stigmergicweb.org/2006/05/09/next-thing-you-know-itll-be-illegal-to-open-your-eyes-in-a-public-place/#comment-3755 <p>I liked your title Rob as it reminded me of something or read or heard (wish I knew where ... and thus the irony in this comment) that we are nearing the technology when we can actually record everything we see through some sort of eye implants. Allright, technology aside, what does that do for copyright. intellectual property, etc. Once we have seen a movie ... can we simply rewind our memories of it? I feel like the technology for this may just be supressed as much as the eco-friendly automobile. Hmmmmm.</p> I liked your title Rob as it reminded me of something or read or heard (wish I knew where … and thus the irony in this comment) that we are nearing the technology when we can actually record everything we see through some sort of eye implants. Allright, technology aside, what does that do for copyright. intellectual property, etc. Once we have seen a movie … can we simply rewind our memories of it? I feel like the technology for this may just be supressed as much as the eco-friendly automobile. Hmmmmm.

]]> By: Rob Wall http://stigmergicweb.org/2006/05/09/next-thing-you-know-itll-be-illegal-to-open-your-eyes-in-a-public-place/#comment-3738 Rob Wall Tue, 09 May 2006 21:53:46 +0000 http://stigmergicweb.org/2006/05/09/next-thing-you-know-itll-be-illegal-to-open-your-eyes-in-a-public-place/#comment-3738 <p>No worries, Heather - your membership is for life!</p> <p>The article that Hawk referred to, and I should have mentioned this in my post, is about a mother who is <em>not</em> being allowed to photograph or videotape her own child, due to an arbitrary application of a policy that is justified by the argument that the children are being protected from pedophiles. I think that this is a dubious claim at best, and as a premise it leads to unnecessary infringement on the rights of individuals to exist and participate in a public space.</p> No worries, Heather - your membership is for life!

The article that Hawk referred to, and I should have mentioned this in my post, is about a mother who is not being allowed to photograph or videotape her own child, due to an arbitrary application of a policy that is justified by the argument that the children are being protected from pedophiles. I think that this is a dubious claim at best, and as a premise it leads to unnecessary infringement on the rights of individuals to exist and participate in a public space.

]]> By: Heather Ross http://stigmergicweb.org/2006/05/09/next-thing-you-know-itll-be-illegal-to-open-your-eyes-in-a-public-place/#comment-3737 Heather Ross Tue, 09 May 2006 19:28:40 +0000 http://stigmergicweb.org/2006/05/09/next-thing-you-know-itll-be-illegal-to-open-your-eyes-in-a-public-place/#comment-3737 <p>Rob,</p> <p>When I read your post on this, I was totally in agreement, but then I clicked over to Thomas Hawk's original post and changed my mind. From the sound of his piece, parents are allowed to take pictures of their own kids. They're probably even allowed to take pictures of the kids their kids are playing with, but not of children (or adults) who they have no connection to.</p> <p>No, I don't think that there should be restriction on taking pictures of things like famous structures just because some indistiguishable people walk into the shot, but I don't think that I want a stranger, not connected to the event I'm there for (such as a conference) taking my picture and using it for their own purposes. And when / if I actually become a parent I don't want strangers taking pictures of my children. We should be able to enjoy public places without our images popping up on the flickr site of someone we don't know.</p> <p>Am I going to lose my membership in the open source club?</p> <p>Heather</p> Rob,

When I read your post on this, I was totally in agreement, but then I clicked over to Thomas Hawk’s original post and changed my mind. From the sound of his piece, parents are allowed to take pictures of their own kids. They’re probably even allowed to take pictures of the kids their kids are playing with, but not of children (or adults) who they have no connection to.

No, I don’t think that there should be restriction on taking pictures of things like famous structures just because some indistiguishable people walk into the shot, but I don’t think that I want a stranger, not connected to the event I’m there for (such as a conference) taking my picture and using it for their own purposes. And when / if I actually become a parent I don’t want strangers taking pictures of my children. We should be able to enjoy public places without our images popping up on the flickr site of someone we don’t know.

Am I going to lose my membership in the open source club?

Heather

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