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Senator Lodge’s bill to prevent the selling of fake photographs of the President shaking hands with tourists is in the direction of truth and hon esty, and to that extent is worthy of commendation. The provision that “no photographer or corporation can make and sell, or send through the mails, a fraudulent or untrue photo graph, or alleged copy of any living person without that person's consent,” may give rise to practical difficulties, as well as to differences of construc tion. The fake photograph has been not only a source of annoyance, but might be perverted to dangerous and scan dalous purposes. As a general rule, the individual has a right to protec tion against the public exposure of the camera, but there are occasions when unauthorized photographs of public personages might do a world of good. Whether Senator Lodge's bill is too sweeping or not can only be deter mined by a careful examination of all its provisions. But it may be remarked in passing that there is one picture of the present President which will never be sold, because it would be too obviously a fake to deceive anybody— and that is a picture of Mr. Taft shak ing hands with Tourist Roosevelt and cordially inviting him into the White House.
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Baltimore Sun
Baltimore, Maryland, US
Wed, Jul 31, 1912
Page 6
Full Page
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Christopher S.
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