[Gromit801]

Originally Posted by jimworcs

Gromit,
Is all the nonsense in your reply a smokescreen for not answering my questions? I am happy to be proved wrong, and will publicly acknowledge you are correct IF you are able to do so. All I ask is that you cite the law and or airline policy which you think applies to this situation. It is a simple request. Perhaps as a photographer you can also explain how photographers seem able to flout the law so blatently when taking photographs of celebrities arriving/departing LAX, which is also private property. Are you suggesting they have a signed consent form from each celebrity and anyone else in the picture before publication? If not, how do they get round this law and avoid getting sued? If, as a graphic artist, you are so familiar with the law, the task of citing the law which applies should not tax you too much.

I stated in my original post, that airlines are not public but private entities. Unless the private owner stipulates otherwise, your first amendment rights to take photographs in places where there is no reasonable expectation of privacy, such as an airport or airplane are protected. If the airline specifies different terms (which is it's right) then they most certainly take precedence. So far, despite my requests, you have failed to cite any airline policy which prohibits photography.

There doesn't HAVE TO BE AN AIRLINE POLICY.

The right to take pictures is NOT IN CONTEST. It's what you can do with those pictures or videos that is the point, and that comes under public law, not airline policies.