Philippines bans the taking of selfies

It does seem a popular pastime to put photos on facebook. My fiancee has just posted a plethora of photos from a wedding she attended between an American and Filipina yesterday. I wonder if a 'church' will be regarded as a public place under this new law, if it comes into force?

They reviewed the GoPro Hero2 camera on the gadget show some time back. Think it got good ratings as I recall.

Not just for that. We had a company come to our works to do a promo video for the products we make. Each and everyone of us had to sign a consent form agreeing that we didn't mind being included in the video (assuming they used that part of the video).

For the discerning selfie enthusiast try one of these;

http://www.getdatgadget.com/looq-extended-selfie-arm-auto-shutter/

These 100 year friends knew what a selfie was before I did!

My boss has one. I had a touch of it the other day when he was flying it and videoing at the local go kart track. Impressive bit of kit.

Yes, we have a selfie extender rod or whatever you call it...forgotten the name of it.

Yep. We have one. They arent expensive.

i think this new law is spot on---too many selfies look bloody awful

how about this?

http://www.quikpod.com/blog/943/

The rod looks longer than the cockpit!

In fact here is a selfie done by the wife's friends boyfriend, filipino ingenuity

I think the camera has a fish-eye lens

You had to sign what's known as a "Model Release" and that effectively grants your company the copyright to your image(s) portrayed in the video and it can use that/those image(s) without paying you a royalty. However the Blair government, I believe it was, introduced some proposed legislation that is very similar to this House Bill which would outlaw taking photos of certain public buildings, defence establishments and photos containing persons unrelated to the photographer. I am not sure what happened to that (Westminster) Bill.

This Bill is specifically designed to protect richer Filipinos for it is for that reason the remedy is a civil rather than criminal action and is an exercise in subjugation. Civil cases are expensive to mount, beyond the means of your average phone-toting selfie-taking Filipino and since this is civil law, there's no prescribed penalty meaning the amount of money required to settle a case can be unlimited. An extorter's charter.

If passed, this idiotic bill could result in there being no TV news programs and newspapers without photos which is precisely what the nation's corrupt want since there'll be absolutely no chance of accountability.

Ah model release is it. Yes the bill seems ludicrous and can't imagine that being passed.