I don’t know the legal theory behind this, and it seems to be related to data privacy, but residents in Germany can opt-out of being pictured on Street View. Also they have been drawing a strange distinction for large-scale mapping, and this is why Google Street view has a handful of blurred out houses in Germany. There are restrictions on sharing photographs of people. Germany is considered to have freedom of panorama, so outdoor public spaces can generally be photographed and shared as long as the photographer is standing on the ground. Here, the right to share photographs varies by country. There are pros and cons, but a big positive aspect is that this is generally compatible with the realities of rapidly-advancing technology for taking and sharing photographs. In my understanding, this scheme would not be considered true freedom of panorama due to the artwork exceptions. There is a line, in that we cannot use a telescope to look in windows, for example. With minor exceptions (artwork, for example), one can take photos in public and use them as desired. In the US, we have a scheme that considers most things that are outdoors and visible to the naked eye to be for public consumption and sharing. Really any time the European Union or the individual European states pass a new law or make a ruling, it’s sure to be comical.īut today I want to write about “freedom of panorama.” This is actually an exception to copyright law, in that the person who designed a building has a copyright on its appearance. If you don’t like what somebody is saying about you on the internet, you have a “ right to be forgotten” by Google.They required Microsoft to release an alternate version of Windows XP without Windows Media Player, a ruling that was so out of touch with the interests of the people that only 1500 copies were sold.They required Microsoft to implement the browser ballot, a feature that was broken for 1.5 years before anybody noticed.If a website has cookies, it must display an annoying pop-up warning.Their use of photo enforcement is unfettered by the rules of trigonometry. Imagine the technologically illiterate politicians that we have in the US, but now imagine that they were actually effective at passing all the stupid laws they want. It’s no secret that I think European laws are a joke.
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