Originally Posted by
PTravel
About this issue you are, unfortunately, mistaken. Starbucks is private property and entry is by revocable license. If Starbucks (or any other store) wants to prohibit photography, it is entirely within its rights to do so. You are confusing the law regarding use of photographs taken in locations where there is no reasonable expectation of privacy, which could include a Starbucks, with the right of a property owner to control the use of his property.
The funniest part of that is that Starbucks has a Flickr group in which they invite people to take pictures inside Starbucks stores and put them on the Starbucks Flickr group.
There are dozens of stories of people trying to take photos for the Starbucks Flickr who are told that Starbucks has a corporate policy against photos in its stores.