Re: [LINK] We’re all copyright criminals now

[Kim Holburn]

So if I didn't want to be filmed by the media and I have say have a  
getto blaster playing an EMI song - well they couldn't use the sound  
on TV, is that right ;-)  Hey not that the media would be interested  
in me, it's just that the intrusiveness of today's media especially  
some of the TV shows is a pet peeve of mine.

On 2006/Nov/21, at 8:20 AM, Marghanita da Cruz wrote:

> Kim Holburn wrote:
> <snip>
>> If a paparazzi takes a picture of you in the street or a news   
>> camerman takes a video of you in the street can you sue?  What is  
>> a   "performance" anyway?  Does that include buskers?  If you  
>> suddenly  start busking does that count as a performance?  Does  
>> hiring a hall  mean that you are making a "performance"?  Does the  
>> media have  special rights that the rest of us don't?
> <snip>
> If the song or play that you are performing has been written down  
> then it is copyrighted.
>
> Interestingly, if you record or film a busker in a public place...I  
> am not sure what rights they would have, though if they were  
> breaching copyright this woud not be a good business venture.

Yes but buskers are creative people in themselves.  Do they have  
rights to their own performances?  Can news cameras shooting them be  
fined?

Say the people being filmed were protesters at a big "summit" being  
filmed by the news, could they ask for the news camerapeople to be  
fined?


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