Mark,
I would be careful with how you deal with those that photograph your booth. The rights we have as photographers also apply to our customers, whether or not we like it. A person has the right to photograph anything in public view with few exceptions (national security, privacy issues). How they use those images is where they can get in trouble. There are no laws (other than the previously mentioned exceptions) that disallow photography. On the other hand coercion, intimidation, and threats can and most likely are against the law. No one in America has the legal right to demand that a photographer show or delete their images absent a court order. That include the police.
Photography is never against the law. You can even photograph on private property against a persons wishes and you are not breaking the law. At that point they can ask you to leave and if you don't then you would be trespassing but the photography does not make the trespassing 'more' illegal. This does not apply to art shows. Art shows are generally public venues. A police officer would not remove a patron from a public show because he was taking pictures of the art. If he did he would be facing more trouble than he wanted if the person pursues it.
As much as we may not like it people have the right to photograph what they want. We have an angry artist at our weekly venue who goes after anyone who points a camera in the direction of his art. One day he went too far and went after a person who happened to be a visiting photographer who was well versed in his rights. That photographer went to the city to complain and it was a hassle for the entire venue since the artist was in the wrong. He was lucky that the photographer did not call the police on the spot.
As an artist I can't say that I am happy about this, but as a photographer I cherish the rights afforded to us in the US. Since they apply to all photographers I have to live with it.
If I find someone using my images without my permission and I knew it was from an image they made at one of my public displays, then I would have no sympathy for them and I would go after them with as much force as I could. I think some infringements taken from the internet can be somewhat innocent, but not forgivable. Using my image after taking a picture of it is something I can never consider innocent. I take a hard line view on that, although I have never found anyone that has done this.
Scott
Scott Sharick Photography
Honolulu, Hawaii
www.scottsharickphotography.com
www.scottsharickblog.com
www.flickr.com/photos/scottsharick/
On Oct 22, 2010, at 5:01 PM, Mark L Zurek wrote:
> The balls on some of these people. There is a website (can't remember the addy) that will show your stolen images around the web.Some sort of "facial "recognition software. Several of my images were on russian calanders, spanish greeting cards, etc. Hard to stop.
> At Bayou, I had more people in my booth with camera phones, and DSLR's literally framing images than any other show I can recall. I had at least 4 that I had stand there and show me they had deleted the image, and my neighbor ran a guy down that was shooting outside the booth, and SHE made him do the same.
> I don't believe in posting signs, it works for others just not my thing, but the audacity of these people is beginning to be a bit hard to deal with.
> How did you find your images on Facebook?
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> --- On Fri, 10/22/10, Josh Trefethen <joshtrefethen@gmail.com> wrote:
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> From: Josh Trefethen <joshtrefethen@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [artshow_photo] Copyright infringement on Facebook
> To: artshow_photo@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Friday, October 22, 2010, 12:01 PM
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