Great idea !! I have been looking for CC photos of Nairobi yesterday on Wikimedia...<br><br>Thanks Gichingiri for your reply. <br><br>I guess you are right, although we may think that public/govt properties fall into public domain and can be shot without prior permission (unless there is a sign saying &quot;no picture&quot;); but last events showed that you can not take picture of public places without consent of City <br>
Council and especially now with that Al-Shabaad threat !<br><br>Law varies a lot from country to country, but note that in general, private properties/buildings fall into copyright protection and thus private properties/buildings can be photographed without consent of owners; same remarks for buildings/properties decorated for specific events, then you must have consent of owners as well as person in charge of decoration/event organizers (do you remember the Effeil Tower story, you can picture the Effeil Tower during the day as it falls into the public domain; but at night, you can&#39;t !! Just because the specific lighting of the tower is copyrighted, crazy) <br>
<br>Therefore, for both private properties and people, it is preferable to have a signed model/property release form - you can find a template there, it could very useful for private owners - <a href="http://www.professionalphotographer.co.uk/Magazine/Downloads/Model-Release-Form">http://www.professionalphotographer.co.uk/Magazine/Downloads/Model-Release-Form</a><br>
<br>Some useful links - <br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photography_and_the_law">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photography_and_the_law</a><br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_release">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_release</a><br>
<br>Wishing you all the best !!<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 14 February 2012 08:31, Gichingiri Kuria <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:gmail@gichingiri.com">gmail@gichingiri.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
You need a permit from the city council. I think it costs about ksh. 4,000 for a day.<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On 13 February 2012 18:49, stephen wanjau <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:wanjaustev@gmail.com" target="_blank">wanjaustev@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>

</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><font color="#6666cc"><span>Hello,</span><br><br><span>We are planning as Wikipedians in Kenya to take photos of monuments and buildings around Nairobi then later upload them to Wikimedia Commons under the Creative Commons license. These photos are in turn used in Wikipedia articles lacking pictures or Articles shall later be written that were lacking yet the photograph is now available.</span><br>



<br><span>On that note, am I required to have some form of permit? Or any other form of permission from the Kenyan authorities.</span><br><br>

<span>PS: From</span> <a href="http://bit.ly/AA4xg4" target="_blank">Wikimedia Commons</a>,<span> </span><span>Kenya is categorized as having freedom of Panorama.</span><br>

<br><span>Please advise.</span><span><font color="#888888"><br><br><span>//Stephen</span><br clear="all"></font></span></font><span><font color="#888888"><br>-- <br><font color="#888888"><span style="font-size:11pt"><font style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif" size="2"><b style="color:rgb(204,0,0)"></b></font></span></font><br>



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