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New Jersey may ban all photos of kids - goodbye art for preps pages

Discussion in 'Journalism topics only' started by Small Town Guy, May 9, 2011.

  1. Stitch

    Stitch Active Member

    Then you don't run photos of kids if you have to get a release. Too much trouble for little upside.
     
  2. Ace

    Ace Well-Known Member

    Can we compromise and ban people taking your photo at amusement parks so they can sell them to your for $20 when you leave?
     
  3. HanSenSE

    HanSenSE Well-Known Member

    I'm just thinking of how much easier the job would become if this bill passes and goes viral in legislatures through the country. Don't have to worry about bad lighting, or blowing deadline because the desk thought having a cute photo of the team with the trophy on the web was more important than me getting my pages out, and no more calls from soccer moms or folks who bitch how we never run pictures of the linemen when they do all the work, but run pictures of the running back instead. And also being able to tell the dimwits wondering why we didn't have any photos of the Springfield-Shelbyville game, "We're just obeying the law."
     
  4. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    Let them pass it. Then go about business as usual. Call their bluff. All the way to the Supreme Court if need be.
     
  5. printdust

    printdust New Member

    From there, New Jersey lawmakers think it'd be a good idea to ban pictures of children in public "when a reasonable parent or guardian would not expect his child to be subject of such reproduction."

    You just settled the issue there. People expect athletic events to be part of an art reproduction within the scope of media work.
     
  6. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    That's good for us. But it's still unconstitutional.
     
  7. BillyT

    BillyT Active Member

    You could shoot seniors who are 18. ;)
     
  8. PaperDoll

    PaperDoll Well-Known Member

    I believe the photo/video release is a requirement for public high school athletes here. Want your kid on a team? Agree to media coverage.

    I am coordinating coverage of a sports-related event at a school, and the administrator said kids who don't have releases on file can't be photographed at all. They can't even be in the background of photos, regardless of how blurry they may be. I really wish those kids wouldn't be allowed to participate in the program, because the admin is all but demanding to go over every photo before we leave the premises.
     
  9. flexmaster33

    flexmaster33 Well-Known Member

    How about a better idea...take the perv's camera and toss him in a jail cell for 5 years. I bet his new cell mates would find him plenty sexy.
     
  10. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    Yes! I love when threads take this turn! SportsJournalists.com torture porn involving prisoners is the best!
     
  11. Stitch

    Stitch Active Member

    There would be plenty of openings for photographers at newspapers in New Jersey, or anywhere, if this happened.
     
  12. Double Down

    Double Down Well-Known Member

    We go now to pole vaulting temptress Allison Stoke for comment...

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