Pixiq

Good luck with your new project.

Do you know what I want to buy? Prints of pictures of people reaching for your camera. Black rectangles to mask identity would be perfectly fine.

I don’t see the timer but I’ll keep look’n for it and I look forward to buying some products to support your cause.

OK, NOW I see the timer!!

Check this out, Carlos:

“Deputy confiscates woman’s cell phone -
He feared it had been modified into a gun”

http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2010/07/30/deput...

In a statement, Delaware County Sheriff Walter L. Davis III said that cell-phone guns are an example of everyday items that have been altered into deceptive weapons that endanger the safety of officers and the public.

“When a sheriff’s deputy encounters an individual holding something in his or her hand, the deputy will take action to identify the item. This is done for the safety of the deputy, the involved parties and the public,” Davis wrote.

After Greenfield got her phone back, she said, the video she took of the deputies at the Flying J truck stop at I-71 and Rt. 37 on July 9 had been deleted, along with a couple of vacation videos.

Deputies did not delete any video, Davis said. A warrant would have been required to search the phone, and one was not obtained, he said.

Can’t make stuff like this up. Sounds like this is the start of pig backlash to citizens recording police actions in public.

And congrats on the new project … I’ll definitely give support.

Hmmm, yeah, not seeing anything at all while viewing with NetNewsWire, with no ad blocking.

Carlos,

Just remember that your critics will all jump in line to say that anything you do from now on is commercial because you accept money. If you can do the shop on a separate site, and just link to it from your blog, you ‘might’ save yourself some headaches. Good Luck in any case

@SteelToad: You need to recognise the different meanings of “commercial use”:

1. Of and relating to commerce
2. Advertisement

I can take a picture of Tom Cruise, blow it up then sell it, all perfectly legal because it is using meaning 1.

I take that photo put it on a billboard with the slogan “Come Cruise with me”, that is illegal without a release from Tom. That is meaning 2.

Carlos is not using the photos themselves to advertise any products or services. Anyone that thinks he is doing photography for “commercial purposes” is mistaken, they are all editorial use.

Are you going to sell Press badges?

I want a bumper sticker:

“Photography is NOT a crime. It’s a First Amendment Right.”

Oh, and hoping you will take PayPal!

Putting “First Amendment Right” on the merchandise will limit his market to the US only. We don’t have a bill of rights in Australia, let alone any amendment’s.

Of course if Carlos WANTS to limit is market to the US then he should put that on.

I’d like to suggest that the food blog be named “Eating Well is Not a Crime”. You know, keeping with a theme and all.

Hazza: it would only limit the market on that one item or those specific items.

also, do you guys have grammar school in Australia? An apostrophe isn’t used to make a plural.

There is nothing wrong about making money. You got to keep this blog going. This blog along with America Speaks ink.com and Antiwar.com are some of my favorites. Carlos, I heard you interview on MSNBC on XM radio while I was driving. I could believe you were on the news. I was so proud saying that is my guy! Hey try to get some pics of these clouds C. Ric h wrote about:
http://americaspeaksink.com/2010/07/bp-oil-spill-toxic-clouds-of-death-i...

Carlos, thanks for your work on this blog and on this important topic.

One thought I had as far as making some $$$…Maybe reviews of personal digital recording gear and links to retailers?

I’m not a videographer but I am a bicyclist. Bicyclists have frequent interactions with cops that like to make up the vehicle code on the spot, so I’d be interested in a recorder.

@Hazza,

I know the difference, but anybody out there who has anything against Carlos (shocking I know, but true) will probably use it as an excuse to say that everything he ever does from now on is commercial, and to benefit his enormous financial empire.

@Stelltoad: Yeah, I realised what you meant just after I posted it. It’s such a common mistake I thought you had made it too, my bad.

@genewitch: WTF? With the amount of piss poor spelling and other crap on here you bring up such a small mistake?

Why does a blog have to be non-profit. It’s a media site. Make money off it. Show the old media it can be done without charging for content.

SteelToad

So how is it not commercial if you’re making money from it? Carlos stated that he hoped to make his living from blogging, to my mind that makes every photo he posts here from now on commercial.