Copyright and Privacy
1. Copyright is complicated. Remember that contributors to this thread have, over the last three weeks, posted photographs from the UK, Belgium and the USA. All have different copyright laws. They may be similar but they will not be the same.
2. Simply claiming copyright cannot protect something which is not copyrighted. However to be clear taking a photograph is a creative act and the photograph will be capable of protection even if it is a picture of the Statue of Liberty or the Tower of London.
3. There would appear to be some confusion between copyright and privacy. Again privacy is a minefield across jurisdictions but generally speaking someone in a public place has no right to privacy. Someone riding naked around Brighton can hardly claim an expectation of privacy so my photographs, for instance, are safe from that issue.
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