Uzbekistan

Conditional

Issuer: Site administrations for monuments; multiple state bodies for drone filming; no permit for personal street photography

Cost: No permit for personal photography; ticketed monuments may charge camera fees, and commercial shoots need site consent

Personal photography restrictions were rolled back in the post-2016 tourism opening (metro photography was legalized in 2018). Commercial shoots at the Registan and other managed monuments need the site administration's consent; drone filming requires a separate, legal-entity-only government permission process.

Effectively banned for visitors: import, sale, and use of drones have been prohibited since 2015 without official permission, with liability softened to administrative penalties for first offenses in 2024; legal drone filming requires advance permission involving tourism, culture, defense, and flight-safety authorities

Drones are routinely confiscated at the border. Do not bring one without pre-arranged authorization. For detail, see Drone Authority.

Yes to photograph in ordinary public spaces; military installations, border crossings, security facilities, and some government buildings remain prohibited subjects

Street and metro photography is now normal in Tashkent, Samarkand, and Bukhara. Publishing identifiable people commercially still warrants consent.

Non-commercial only

The Law on Copyright and Related Rights (No. LRU-42 of 2006, as amended) permits reproduction and transmission of works of architecture and visual art permanently located in places open to free attendance, except when the representation of the work is the basic subject of the reproduction or is used for commercial purposes. The Timurid monuments are centuries out of copyright, so this mainly affects modern architecture and monuments.