I you are playing a concert you either have a camera ban or you don't. And I'd say that if someone manages to sell a picture of your concert to the media - or even post a you tube vid -then your payment is the publicity. (unless you are awful and then your payment is the deserved negative publicity.

But I think that playing in the pub is different. It's not that people people shouldn't be allowed to take pictures of people in public, it's just fucking rude to do it without asking first.

I friend went to the US once and brought back (scotland) this hefty tome of "folk music inspired" academia from the Smithsonian Institute. And in it was a picture of me playing down the pub in Edinburgh. And the caption read, "A Scottish musician playing traditional Scottish music in a bar in Edinburgh". I am neither Scottish nor was I - or any other of my pals - playing Scottish music. All this could have been sorted out of course, if this dreary academic had asked to take the photo.

It gets bad in Edinburgh with cameras, so bad in fact that we often put a sign up, a silhouette of a camera in a red circle with a red line through it, with the words "Please don't photograph or film the musicians without their permission." It's pretty straight forward ... anyone can ask, and they usually do, And they get better pictures. And if they can sell them then good for them.