John Mayer is felicitous for his photo to be taken by the paparazzi -- as long there is regulation on how the shutterbugs take themselves.
Jennifer Aniston's crooner swell made his argument at a hearing about the matter at L.A. City Hall Thursday.
"I don't posture before you today to ask that you ban the paparazzi," Mayer, 30, explained. "I'm asking you to baffle it. Officialize it. Tax it. Legitimize it.
"I don't want to beg the city of Los Angeles to give me 1987 back," he said. "I love being a famed musician in 2008... This is about safety."
The isaac Bashevis Singer suggested the requirement of photographer credentials, marked cars for photographers and a "law government an acceptable filming distance from an unwilling subject [to maintain] everybody safe and misbehaviour accountable."
The 30-year-old concluded: "Regulating the paparazzi won't bring an ending to contemporary media coverage, just as the freshly enforced hands-free law hasn't stopped multitude from talk on cell phones piece they drive."
Runaway Train actor Eric Roberts and Heroes star Milo Ventimiglia were also scheduled to speak at the hearing.
LAPD Chief William J. Bratton called out celebrities for making a big deal of how paparazzi conduct themselves.
He told KNBC-TV Thursday, "If you notice, since Britney started wearing away clothes and behaving; Paris is out of town not bothering anybody, give thanks God; and, evidently, Lindsay Lohan has gone merry, we don't seem to have practically of an issue.
"So as far as all this grandstanding and foolishness, ware of city time on this upshot � and the fact that I felt aggravated enough approximately it to interrupt my workout to come over and plant the record straight, LAPD has no intention of participating in this farce."
"They act like a pack of wolves, stalking their prey," Councilman Dennis Zine said. "What we're trying to do is keep a tragedy from natural event."
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