Posted on 09/17/2009 9:23:59 PM PDT by Fido969
From September 16, 2004 through October 1, 2004, a COK investigator worked undercover in the hanging room of the Perdue Farms slaughter plant in Showell, Maryland. Using a hidden camera, he documented horrible—yet routine—cruelty to animals on a daily basis
http://www.cok.net/camp/inv/perdue/
Or the government at work. I don't remember signing a consent form:
Some Maryland high school students have found a way to trick the local speed cameras into sending other people tickets
http://www.ridelust.com/maryland-teens-expose-weakness-in-speed-cameras/
Just to play Devil’s advocate for any property owner, wouldn’t you assume you would need permission before recording on private property or informing the owner beforehand?
On what grounds? Performance rights? Copyright?
They are trying to apply “wiretapping” rules to someone in person talking to you face to face.
When Connie Chung told Newt’s momma “this is off the record” and she kept taping, what city what she in when she coaxed “Hillary’s a b*tch” out of her?
Eating meat is natural, but there is absolutely no reason to obtain it this way. I worry about people who show this little regard for life, human or nonhuman.
Once again, do you need permission to record on private property?; it was a general question.
Okay, something tells me I’m looking at a completely different article than everyone else is.
legally audio is treated differently than video.
Doug Gansler is a politician first and the Attorney General about 15th. He’s part of the culture of corruption in deep-blue Maryland. This is a political prosecution, should he actually be foolish enough to undertake it.
If he does, I want to be on the jury.
This is the same law the libs in Maryland tried to use against Linda Tripp.
On what grounds? Depends on what you intend to do with something.
Is it for commercial use (like a prank video) or is it investigative journalism that the public has a pressing need to know?
The Pamela Anderson/Tommy Lee porn video was shot by them and stolen by someeone working in their home. A judge eventually ruled that the tape was in the public arena since it had become “newsworthy” by virtue of their celebrity status and the court case. It could be legally sold without their release.
That would appear to be much more of an invasion of privacy (which is about all they could claim).
If they had set up cameras OUTSIDE and pointed them in through a window, that would be an invasion of privacy. There was a reasonable expectation of consent to speak with the man & woman who were posing as pimp and prostitute. If some observer in the ACORN office had been taping two other parties engaged in a conversation unrelated to the matter at hand, then again it could be an evesdropping/tapping case of some sort.
When Michael Richards (Aka “Kramer from Seinfeld”) went off on his n-word tirade at the comedy club, there was no “release” from the comedy club or the performer to leak that to the media.
What’s different?
There are officers who claim that you cannot tape them when they stop you in traffic. But I doubt it would survive supreme court appeal.
Are you even allowed to be on somebody else’s private property? Or is it always “trespassing”?
General question...
That was a phone call.
In Texas, for example, you can tape your phone calls so long as a party on one end of the call is aware it is being taped.
You do not need to inform the person you are talking to. Even if they are in DC or Maryland although prosecutors their might try to claim their state’s law trumps Texas’ law.
However if your taping system is automatic and a friend doesn’t know you are taping, you would be in violation of the law.
John F. Kennedy installed a taping system in the White House that was expanded by LBJ. Richard Nixon was the one who famously taped his phone calls but at least LBJ did as well if not JFK too. I don’t recall any charges against them for taping calls in DC.
And yet they accused HCUA of “partisan witchhunts” to get Communists.
Depends on the property owner.
I don’t know about that, but another question is...is it private property if they are funded with taxpayer money? What delineates “private” property?
I would guess that if you are invited onto private property (a guy who owns a store, for example, would obviously allow customers onto his property) then you can take pictures to your heart’s content. Until the owner objects and tells you to get off his property.
Can you do it secretly? THAT is the question.
Didn’t ‘60 Minutes’ get away with the practice for decades?
I don’t ever remember them getting prosecuted....
DC has the same law as TX .. so long as one party to the conversation knows it is being taped, it is legal.
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