If I put something in public view, its image becomes public. This is why, for example, it's okay to photograph celebrities while they're out buying groceries, but not to use a telephoto lens from the top of the neighbor's fence to take a picture through the bathroom window of them in the shower.

I'm not going to make an argument about the guy who didn't want his picture taken. He wasn't in public, so it's not relevant to my argument. There are totally different issues involved.

I didn't really mean ownership in a legal manner; I meant it more in an abstract manner. The concept of the image of your house from the street is something that you have traditionally thought of as being owned by you, because nothing has really challenged that notion. But now that you're realizing that's not true, that it's free for anyone to use, because it's out in public, you want to retain your illusion that it was yours to begin with, when it never really was.