NEWS 409 Lecture Notes - Lecture 38: Nieman Fellowship
3 Mar 2019
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A new proposed law would turn drone journalism into a swarm of lawsuits and make it easy to sue over photography news. Imagine if a new photographer at a football game had to get permission from every single person in the stadium before taking a single shot- or else face hundreds of civil lawsuits. That"s what new model legislation wants to bring to public airspace. If one semi-official group gets its way, it also exposes you to atleast 13 civil law suits for trespassing. More legal exposure capturing video of those houses. In 1946, the us supreme court decided that the airspace above us belonged to the federal government. A 1962 court decision affirmed that federal law pre-empted local laws when it came to aviation. The group"s effort comes at a time when field of drones and their use is changing rapidly. Municipalities across the country are trying to regulate airspace that isn"t legally theirs.
