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This is a link post Taking pictures of public buildings may make you a criminal
I think that's what it says.
 (barst Rdli Hakkis 4eva in r hartz, Tue 23 Jun 2015, 20:27, , Reply)
This is a normal post This again?
No: it means that commercial use of certain images may come under copyright law. And, at a guess, even that would only cover instances in which you were taking a photo of the thing in question for that specific purpose: if it happened to be in the frame, then there'd be no problem. And it's a very small part of a report.

All it does is suggest an amendment to European law that's more or less comparable with what goes on in French law already. Is France imprisoning photographers? No. And there's no reason to suppose that the amendment will be accepted anyway, or that it'd make the blindest bit of difference to the law in any EU country.

Panic over.
 (I helped save b3ta! Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Tue 23 Jun 2015, 20:44, , Reply)
This is a normal post Ta v much.
I wasn't pooping me pants, just curious what it meant.
 (barst Rdli Hakkis 4eva in r hartz, Tue 23 Jun 2015, 20:47, , Reply)
This is a normal post While we're at it:
Here's the unamended paragraph from the report:
Due to the territoriality of copyright, an image legally taken under Freedom of Panorama in one country may be illegal to distribute in another. For people sharing their holiday pictures after traveling to another member state, this is incomprehensible.

The report recommends: Improve legal certainty of everyday activities by adding an exception for full panorama freedom across Europe.

So if the report is accepted as is, it'll actually liberalise the law elsewhere. Only if one amendment is accepted is there any possibility of anything else happening.
 (I helped save b3ta! Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Tue 23 Jun 2015, 20:47, , Reply)
This is a normal post Can I get money off the architect for imposing his building within my panorama?

(I helped save b3ta! MyFrontFellOff ; his mouth full of teddies, urinating defiantly, Tue 23 Jun 2015, 21:00, , Reply)
This is a normal post Can't we just simply the law so once a surface has reflected photons off into the infinite the owner of said surface loses all rights to them?

(I helped save b3ta! Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Wed 24 Jun 2015, 9:46, , Reply)
This is a normal post ^this.
Makes perfect sense to me.
 (I helped save b3ta! sm.pl.crt.rs I don't fucking know, do I?, Wed 24 Jun 2015, 14:44, , Reply)