"Steve Foley" wrote in message
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What authority is needed to take pictures?


There are privacy laws in most states prohibiting people taking pictures of
you if you don't want them taken, especially if the pictures are being taken
as a form of intimidation or some other threat such as embarrassment. I
don't know about Massachusetts but across the state line in New York the
privacy laws are very strict indeed. Courts have held that celebrities must
have a lower expectation of privacy, but even then the celeb's image cannot
be used to promote a product or service without permission. After all, the
only real asset many celebrities have is their image, and it is not fair to
allow just anyone to make commercial use of it.