{"id":125,"date":"2009-04-14T23:15:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-14T23:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/u75blog\/?p=125"},"modified":"2009-04-14T23:15:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-14T23:15:00","slug":"g20-police-footage-could-be-good-news-for-photographers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/g20-police-footage-could-be-good-news-for-photographers\/","title":{"rendered":"G20 police footage could be good news for photographers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>COMMENT: G20 FOOTAGE and PHOTOGRAPHERS&#8217; RIGHTS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>All the video and photographic evidence leaking through into the mainstream from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/photos\/protest\/g20-protest-city-of-london.html\">G20 protests<\/a> is going to make it really hard for the police to try and stretch anti-terrorism legislation to cover banning photography at future demos.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"319\" alt=\"top\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/photos\/protest\/images\/gaza-israel-protest-01.jpg\" width=\"425\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Surely even the most right wing media must now appreciate the importance of recording protests from all sides now.<br \/>Even if the police do try and implement terrorism laws to force photographers to hand over their cameras and video footage, new mobile streaming technologies will soon make it a redundant gesture.<\/p>\n<p>Using fast 3G connections, protesters will be able to take movies\/photos on their mobile phones and upload them directly onto YouTube from within the &#8216;kettle,&#8217; so there&#8217;s no way the cops can stop the footage getting out (unless they delve even deeper into their dodgy powers and force a mobile signal blackout &#8211; a move which would surely prompt questions from the general public). <\/p>\n<p>Quite a few phones are already capable of uploading videos directly on to websites and as the technology becomes more commonplace it&#8217;s going to become increasingly difficult for the police to try and suppress legitimate press and personal coverage of demonstrations.<\/p>\n<p>More info: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/photos\/photographers-rights-and-the-law.html\" target=\"_blank\">Photographers Rights And The Law In The UK<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COMMENT: G20 FOOTAGE and PHOTOGRAPHERS&#8217; RIGHTS All the video and photographic evidence leaking through into the mainstream from the G20 protests is going to make it really hard for the &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[75,18,19],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stuff","tag-g20","tag-photography","tag-protest"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/gaza-israel-protest-01.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-21","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}