--- In [email protected], "Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hey, I'm not worried. hey, I am!!! :-) Andreas seems to think that most of the litigation we need to protect us in the future has been settled, and we just need to educate ourselves and it will be ok, especially if people shoot their footage "ethically." It's when people say "screw ethics" or when their ethics don't match mine that i want the courts to set some kind of common ground agreement for us all. For example, Andreas said earlier... "If I'm filming you while you stand at the bus stop with a funny look on your face, you have no measures to stop me from mailing that footage to every person in the world. .... if you're just standing there, you have no protection. And nor should you have! " Well, you say "nor should you have" but I say "yes i should!" (well, maybe I say that and maybe i don't, i'm not sure, I'm just illustrating my point). -- I could argue that "a reasonable expectation of privacy" relates to you looking at me on the bus, but it is a very different situation when we're talking about every one in the entire world looking at me on the bus forever whenever they want to, especially if I didn't give permission for that. being seen or even photographed in public is not really the same thing as being reproduced and distributed worldwide, and this is the sitution i was talking about when i brought this up. Someone says I should have no further protection, I say I should have, well yes, we can all say whatever we want, can't we? None of it is enforceable unless the courts address the specific situations with the new technlogy we have, and I just still feel that, even with all the similar cases from the past, the specifics of this sort of thing could use a bit more legal work. [Andreas said about using copyrighted music for non-cmmercial purposes]: > That's not up to you to decide (and nor should it be). It is the creator's > right to decide when, how and where his work should be reproduced. > Exceptions are of course Fair Use for commentary, parody and the like. Yeah, my face should have the same protection, shouldn't it (if the song "Baby Got Back" can be protected against non-commercial reproduction and distribution, why can't I?)? i didn't create it, but I have an awful lot invested in it! Again, i know the courts haven't granted me that protection yet. What I'm saying is that they maybe should! And soon, before the technology races any farther ahead. Thanks for the interesting discussion! Dave ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/A77XvD/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
