02-09-2013, 05:04 AM
There is a big legal difference between posing for a cell phone picture with someone and having someone use a helicopter and telephoto lenses to take pictures of your wedding and honeymoon so they can sell them.
Even celebrities deserve some level of privacy in their homes. No one should have to put up with other people spying on their private lives in order to profit from selling the pictures. Out in public doing celebrity appearances is one thing, but even celebrities should be able to schlep around their pool without being photographed with a telephoto lens so someone can sell the picture to tabloids. I can't imagine how celebrity moms deal with raising kids under that level of scrutiny. I was able take my kids to school in sweatpants and unbrushed hair without having to worry about the picture being splashed across the supermarket newstands with headlines about how I had really let myself go. Even pop stars deserve that.
This law doesn't require the state of Hawaii to spend a penny, it just gives people whose privacy has been invaded a legal tool for recourse. It also would protect non celebrities who are dealing with stalker types, which happens more than most people would think.
Carol
Even celebrities deserve some level of privacy in their homes. No one should have to put up with other people spying on their private lives in order to profit from selling the pictures. Out in public doing celebrity appearances is one thing, but even celebrities should be able to schlep around their pool without being photographed with a telephoto lens so someone can sell the picture to tabloids. I can't imagine how celebrity moms deal with raising kids under that level of scrutiny. I was able take my kids to school in sweatpants and unbrushed hair without having to worry about the picture being splashed across the supermarket newstands with headlines about how I had really let myself go. Even pop stars deserve that.
This law doesn't require the state of Hawaii to spend a penny, it just gives people whose privacy has been invaded a legal tool for recourse. It also would protect non celebrities who are dealing with stalker types, which happens more than most people would think.
Carol
Carol
Every time you feel yourself getting pulled into other people's nonsense, repeat these words: Not my circus, not my monkeys.
Polish Proverb
Every time you feel yourself getting pulled into other people's nonsense, repeat these words: Not my circus, not my monkeys.
Polish Proverb