Question for the lawyers

[theogt]

This is a question worthy of contacting a lawyer in person who you might engage for these purposes.

 

[trickblue]

Yeah, it's true. You were in a public place. If you ever look in travel books or magazines, you see pictures of places with people who just happen to be there when the picture was taken. The people in the picture can't do anything about it.

I even heard of students taking video of their teacher's butts during class and posting them on Youtube. The teachers can't do anything about it.

Then why do they sometimes block out people's faces?

 

[Baileyneverfailey]

It's all about whether you have a reasonable expectation of privacy, and whether the show is worried about privacy tort litigation.

For the poster of this thread, chances are any judge would rule that you had no expectation of privacy if you were singing in a choir, knowing that people would make home videos. Whether it was somebody's family or the entire nation seeing you on TV you should have known you'd be filmed.

Even if you could prove that you had an expectation of privacy, the TV network or whoever would make sure it cost you more than you can afford to litigate.

For TV shows, they block out people's faces if they can't get them to sign a consent form to show them, but even then it will only be in places where those people had a reasonable expectation that they wouldn't be randomly filmed.

 

[TwoCentPlain]

Then why do they sometimes block out people's faces?

Like on that show "Cheaters?"