Artist wins case against neighbours he secretly photographed
A New York appellate court has reluctantly upheld the rights of the photographer Arne Svenson to exhibit and sell photographs he took of his neighbours without their permission. The unanimous decision by a seven-judge panel is a win for First Amendment advocates. But the court itself seemed uneasy about its conclusion, calling the photographs “disturbing” and encouraging the local government to expand privacy laws that would curtail similar work in the future.
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