Filming a sporting event is not a breach of child protection laws.

I don't think anyone is saying it will prohibit people being able to take photos or do videos, it only provides some effort in deterring those who want to do it for malice.

No one and no policy can stop everyone from doing bad things, but is that an excuse to not even try and put in place something to at least make people aware and know their details are recorded if they do use media for malice.

Selfies are an interesting issue, not sure about the answer for that one, at least in these circumstances.

As with all such policy, it is common sense in its application and how people react to it that makes it workable.

Policy at Nationals is more about the "rights" to images when a company such as Kangaroo is employed to take " official" shots.

I believe photos are O.K. but high powered zoom lenses are a no no

Correctly mentioned, at Nationals you are prohibited from using a 100X + zoom lense but you still have to register as a person using the camera.

Jack, usually you make more sense than that! You are implying that we should just give up on trying because we can't control everything, surely you gets?

School basketball is a problem, they can be overzealous with their rules. No dunks allowed, no cameras, once I even heard you couldn't cheers your kids on court because it was determined you were coaching from the sidelines!!!!!!!

Rules are great, but using them properly and for the correct purpose, not a power trip is very important because otherwise people just get off side and start to get pissed off, then you get officials arguing with the wrong crowd.

Did someone honestly just try and copy and paste text thinking it would link to something. Wow

I am an avid amateur photographer and have been photographing my kid's teams for years and I have professional level gear. Basketball Victoria has very clear guidelines on their website and, simply, opposition teams cannot stop you from shotting a game unless they have good reason to do so, with the example used being where there is a child protection order in place (which they have to prove before stopping you). The document says that as a matter of courtesy you should advise the opposition coach, which I always do. Never had a problem, not VJBL, not Classic, not finals, one problem with domestic (see later).

Nationals is a different story where mobs like Kangaroo Photos pay for the right to shoot all games and therefore protect their payment by restricting the use of professional level gear. Never had a problem there either, it's all in the way you go about it.

The one problem I had was, I was shooting a club training at the personal request of the club president, I had been standing with him for some time getting instructions, I had been on the court shooting for about an hour and some mum comes up demanding to know who I am and what I am doing. I sent her over to the president.

It's all in how you go about it. turning up in a club polo or hoodie is a good start, being seen to be talking to coach before the game (and also the referees because I always let them know I am shooting), all go a long way to showing people you are involved.

And I always carry a copy of the BV photography guidelines in my pocket for anyone who challenges me, it's never happened.

Sorry Bear, absolutely incorrect, I have massive problems with having to sign in at venues. If BV thought it was an issue their photography guidelines would be a lot more stringent. Signing in would be a waste of time and wouldn't achieve anything. I'm polite, let the right officials know as a matter of courtesy and don't have problems.

Anon what is this massive problem you have with people being asked to sign in if they are in fact asked to do so, curiously?

^Anon, the reason I have a problem is that I don't like to be treated like I am a criminal. Not everyone with a camera is a paeodophile. You don't see the multitudes of people with iPhones or iPads get questioned. Merely because I have a quality camera makes me one?

I shot two games of junior and one game of senior footy on the weekend. I wasn't there professionally, I was at each game as a favour to friends. Two of the teams I had never shot before and other than the friends who asked, no one knew me. No one came near me, no one questioned me. I didn't have to, as a 'matter of courtesy', tell the other coach, or the umpires, or the team manager or anyone else. Same with netball, I don't have to 'clock in'.

So why should I have to with basketball? What makes basketball special? What makes it a greater target that I have to sign in to prove that I am 'OK'.

I've shot basketball in the USA and when I, as I always do, went to the USA coaches and told them, they looked at me like I was an idiot and wondered why I bothered.

Not everyone with a camera is a paeodophile and anyone in future who questions me will get the BV Photography Guidelines given to them and told they can't stop me.

An earlier poster said 'child protection laws need to be obeyed', it is not against child protection laws to shoot a game of basketball, stills of video. And I can go out in the street and video people walking along and there is nothing they can do about it. Neither is agains the law and people who say it is need to go and check.

If it was against the law, don't you think BV would have stopped it?

Geeze Loiuse, get a grip and take a Valium anon^, no one is calling you anything, people are just asking a simple question about a policy. You seem to be one of those tossers who can't be told anything and is right about everything?

By the way if it is a condition of entry into a venue that you must sign, then you must sign or leave, deal with it.

"Where a sporting event is held on a club's private property, privately owned land, a school or council owned facilities, the owners of private property or venues are able to restrict or ban photography (e.g. some council owned facilities will not allow mobile phones or cameras in change rooms or toilets)."

"Where a sporting event is held on private property not owned by the organisers, there needs to be a discussion with the owners to determine a mutually agreed photographing policy. There is nothing, however, to prevent a person from photographing outside the property boundary unless it is taken for indecent purposes, as previously discussed."

So yes, if you're asked to sign in to film, you have to sign in to film. "Wah I don't want to it makes me feel like a paedophile" isn't a good enough excuse it seems.

"anyone in future who questions me will get the BV Photography Guidelines given to them and told they can't stop me."

I hope you video a game of a certain Melbourne team and their massive whinger parents.

Superintelligent Charming you have no idea do you? 'I don't like being treated like a peadophile' is no reason or major issue other than what is in someone's head. The question was asking what the problem is with signing in, so one wasn't presented, just a rant about being defensive minded if asked to comply with simple policy that is there for a good reason. I think there are two tossers and you are the other one!

Have no problem identifying myself to take photos. But annoyed when we are not supposed to take photos of our own children playing because it is a kangaroo photo (or whoever event).

Tosser

LOL

Plot twist: you actually are a paedophile and are finding out how to look less like one