This morning I was chased out of the University of Wisconsin student union by a college student half my age telling me I couldn’t take photographs there. I know, I know…it wasn’t his fault, he was just doing his job. I asked him why I couldn’t take photographs there. He said everything in the Wisconsin Union was copyrighted and no one could take photographs inside the building without a “permit.”
I am begining to find that in Madison, Wisconsin, one of the most liberal cities in America, it is becoming increasingly difficult to take photographs on state owned and/or tax payer financed facilities (i.e. UW, Overture Center, Monona Terrace, etc.). Ironic, isn’t it? What’s worse, I was at a learning institution!