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Wait "consent before you take a picture of somebody"? You have to ask first before photographing someone else's cosplay in the US? I thought the laws in US allow taking pictures however you like, without consent required. I'm just curious about the legality in the US, in some European countries there is such a thing as "expectation of privacy".
Obviously keep your hands off.
why are people once again confusing legality with morality
Because "morality" is a mess (bible lol). Imho only ethics based on universal values and scientific understanding can yield good results. Anyway thanks to the replies I understand the convention to ask permission before taking pictures now. It might be obvious to you but it's not obvious if you never been to a convention.
In the U.S. you can generally be recorded any place you don't have a reasonable expectation to privacy (like in your home). This is probably just a convention rule to keep perverts from taking creep-shots. You would probably be asked to leave for photographing cosplayers without permission, but I don't know of any law in any state that you would be breaking by photographing a person in a public space.
They are just telling people how to have basic manners.
I'm not form the us but I see think the things here are:
A convention space, while a public space, has convention rules. These rules came out of necessity over the past 25 years of nycc and were not always there.
If you pan over a crowd, no one is going to ban you. These rules are there for specific people who make the space feel unsafe and it feels like a lot of them showed up in this thread angry.
If the space doesn't make it feel safe for cosplayers, cosplayers won't show up.
In Japan its even more strict. The US just politely asks. No one owes anyone anything and just by dressing up, you're not entitled to their picture in your phone.
Most people are fine with it.
Its the creeps who say things like I'm taking this for my spank bank or who try and angle an upskirt photo that are really the problem.
If youre smoking hot or have a really amazing cosplay or both, surely you'd get sick of people having their photo taken with you all day.
I mean, for several hours or so, great... but if you just want to hang out with your crew for a bit surely its ok to say "sorry I'm not doing photos right now."
Legally, no. As part of the rules of the convention, yes.
I don't think anyone's ever been upset at being in the background , but there have been cases of people trying to get upskirts or taking creep shots. I think that's more what its about.
Even more than that, if you've put a significant amount of your time, energy, money and even identity into a creation, you want for the photos people take (and potentially share) of it to be ones where you have some degree of control over how it looks.
Maybe you cut a few corners on the side of a piece and only want to show it from the front, or maybe the makeup only really "works" if you're making the right expression, that kind of thing. It's a professional courtesy to allow cosplayers at a convention to choose how they pose, rather than unilaterally collect them without permission like a Pokemon.
Yeah I think that (besides creeps) is the best explanation. Cosplay is a form of art so the "creator" should have some artistic control over it. Otherwise I'd argue "well if you get up on a stage to shine, you're giving implicit consent". But one can't be constantly "on stage".