No more street photography?

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From a Facebook post by A Solo Traveler:

Denmark has just made a bold proposal to protect human identity in the age of AI. A new copyright law would grant every citizen full ownership of his or her likeness -- including their face, voice and body data -- ensuring that no AI system or company can replicate or use these without consent.

I'm thinking that eventually, this will be adopted worldwide.

What if I'm photographing an event for my local newspaper; do I have to get the consent of everybody who happens to be in the picture?

How will this affect street photography?
 
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How will this affect street photography?
It might teach some Street Photographer's to read and not listen to sensationalist (and plainly stupid) BS.

The laws are around ai enhancing or creating deep fakes of persons and nothing whatsoever to do with 'Street',
 
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How will this affect street photography?
It might teach some Street Photographer's to read and not listen to sensationalist (and plainly stupid) BS.
especially those doing street photography in Denmark and Greenland
The laws are around ai enhancing or creating deep fakes of persons and nothing whatsoever to do with 'Street',
There is a 'however'. What if, however, the image used in the deep fake was nicked from a street photographers post?

Cheers,

Jack
 
From a Facebook post by A Solo Traveler:

Denmark has just made a bold proposal to protect human identity in the age of AI. A new copyright law would grant every citizen full ownership of his or her likeness -- including their face, voice and body data -- ensuring that no AI system or company can replicate or use these without consent.

I'm thinking that eventually, this will be adopted worldwide.

What if I'm photographing an event for my local newspaper; do I have to get the consent of everybody who happens to be in the picture?

How will this affect street photography?
According to estimates, there are 5.3 billion photos taken each day. How are they going to police street photography?:)
 
especially those doing street photography in Denmark and Greenland

Jack
Street photography in Denmark, snowbank photography in Greenland.
 
I thought you used to be a journalist ..
I tried to be a journalist and took a writing course, taught by a (real) journalist, where I was taking snaps, who, after the first day, gave me a refund and told me to stick to taking snaps and continue learning / improving that aspect of news biz.. and still learning :) but, not necessarily, improving:rolleyes:
 
Street photography in Denmark, snowbank photography in Greenland.
That 'snowbank photography', Chris, sounds like my taking snaps in Winnipeg in winter ;)
 

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This article makes mention of the Denmark law but only briefly:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/photo-windsor-street-photography-ethics-9.6955403?cmp=rss

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Boy that prompts a ton of conflicting thought. Controlling photographs is job one in authoritarian regimes. I get this family's complaint and perhaps if it's just a few that complain then their wishes should be respected. But if you carry this to extremes where everyone by default requires a release then you have not only killed the art of street/people photography you've also effectively killed freedom to communicate about conditions. Scary stuff.
 

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