More stupidity about photographs/ers

[KrisK10D]

Why Government killjoys are trying to ban wedding day pictures.

It is the classic wedding photograph pose – the happy couple smiling for the camera as they sign the register.

But the tradition is being scrapped in register offices as a result of Government guidelines which state that photographing the register breaches data protection rules.

It will mean an end to thousands of happy snaps – such as those taken at the wedding of TV weather girl Sian Lloyd and her husband Jonathan Ashman.

Why Government killjoys are trying to ban wedding day pictures | the Daily Mail

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Another spokesman explained: "Taking a photograph could be construed as a copy of the entry and a breach of the Crown Copyright. There are four entries to a double page so the details of another marriage could also be photographed.

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I'm so glad I don't live in Britain. This is stupidity at its finest

[Peter Zack]

You've got to be kidding. Who is that bored that they have to dream up these rules?

[Lowell Goudge]

Although I am not a proponent of wars or natural disasters, it seems that we need one to keep the government occupied in something useful.

[séamuis]

your tax dollars hard at work.

[ftpaddict]

...??!?!?

This would be a good opportunity to invest in a sniper rifle and use senators as target practice.

[roentarre]

Originally Posted by ftpaddict

...??!?!?

This would be a good opportunity to invest in a sniper rifle and use senators as target practice.

Not worth the jail terms at all.

If you leave them alone, they would eventually kill each other anyway.

[ftpaddict]

Originally Posted by roentarre

Not worth the jail terms at all.

If you leave them alone, they would eventually kill each other anyway.

Using tax payer money along the way.

[roentarre]

Originally Posted by ftpaddict

Using tax payer money along the way.

I don't mind my tax dollars to promote extinction of certain species like local senators

[roentarre]

Originally Posted by Peter Zack

You've got to be kidding. Who is that bored that they have to dream up these rules?

Peter, it is because it is so much easier to dream than to think.

[Gooshin]

i think the people of the future have to realize that everything will soon be digitized and or watched/put under survailence

its time to change our social habits rather than enact silly laws

[alohadave]

The new guidelines say photographs of couples signing the register could invade the privacy of others because their signatures may be visible on the same page. There are further fears that details taken from the wedding snaps could be used by fraudsters planning identity theft and that the photos could be in breach of Crown Copyright.

Aren't the records publicly available anyway?

If they are that worried, why not use a single sheet and just take a picture with that.

[Gooshin]

on the other hand whats so special about a picture of people signing a piece of paper

it really is a silly waste of time

[patrickt]

If I were a wedding photographer I'd buy a book, put bogus data in it, and let the couple sign the replica for the photos.

[KrisK10D]

That's the idea, patrickt

I'm surprised none of our British members had anything to say

[cupic]

Laws copyrights are all just to fence us in

Govt's use this to chokes us up

Life is to live

cheers