 |
| Above, Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming. Photo by Armand Vaquer. |
Two days ago, I posted about two photographers who filed suit against the National Park Service over the requirement to have a permit to film or photograph commercially in Grand Teton National Park.
As luck would have it, a bill rescinding that permit requirement for national parks has passed the congress and is headed to His Fraudulency Joe Biden's desk for signature.
National Parks Traveler reported:
In a big win for filmmakers, a provision in the EXPLORE Act, passed yesterday [Thursday] by the Senate and headed for President Biden's desk soon, eliminates the need for photographers and videographers to secure permits to film, even for commercial purposes, in national parks.
This comes just a day after a lawsuit challenging the NPS ban on commercial photography in the parks was filed by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) a conservative-leaning free speech advocacy group, on behalf of adventure filmmakers Alexander Rienzie and Connor Burkesmith. Rienzie and Burkesmith were attempting to film an attempt to set the FKT for ascending the Grand Teton earlier this fall and were refused a permit. The National Press Photographers Association joined the lawsuit.
To read more, go here.
No comments:
Post a Comment