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Mini-documentary on the British war on public photos and videos

WorldBytes, a charity that trains people to make their own journalism got sick and tired of British policemen, bureaucrats and officials telling them that they don’t have the right to shoot motion pictures in public places. There’s no law against making movies or taking pictures in public in Britain — and indeed, you can hardly turn around without a CCTV recording you — but officials and cops enforce this imaginary no-camera law as though it were the law of the land. Saleha from WorldBytes adds, “In this film, we investigate what the public think and let people have their say on issues of the day. Sick of being stopped,our volunteer film-makers made a stand against the arbitrary interference suffered by photographers and film makers and achieved a one day victory for citizen journalism.”

Freedom to film

(Thanks, Saleha!)

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