Live video recording??

[gregs]

I am wondering if anyone can shed some light on legal
aspects of vidoeo taping a live performance. The performance
was otherwise a free concert on a public street. Some irritating
woman makes smart assed comments about me stop recording or taking my
camera away.
She gave no other informative comments like who she was or who she
represented. She only gave an order. This was in a place where
cameras, VTR's, and vacationers
abound in great numbers for the express purpose of recording "The
Experiance" Had she grabbed my camera I would probably be in jail.

greg

[EggHd]

<< I am wondering if anyone can shed some light on legal
aspects of vidoeo taping a live performance. >>

For what purpose?

<< The performance
was otherwise a free concert on a public street. >>

What kind of act? Who was it?




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"I know enough to know I don't know enough"

[Dale Farmer]

gregs wrote:

> I am wondering if anyone can shed some light on legal
> aspects of vidoeo taping a live performance. The performance
> was otherwise a free concert on a public street. Some irritating
> woman makes smart assed comments about me stop recording or taking my
> camera away.
> She gave no other informative comments like who she was or who she
> represented. She only gave an order. This was in a place where
> cameras, VTR's, and vacationers
> abound in great numbers for the express purpose of recording "The
> Experiance" Had she grabbed my camera I would probably be in jail.
>
> greg

IT depends. Where was this? What use are you going to do with
the recording?
Generally, US law is fairly reasonable about the recordings. If you
were making a vacation video to show friends and family back home,
no problem. If you are a news organization, you can use short excerpts
of the performance if they are germane to the story you are reporting. If

you are a studio recording material that will be used, directly or
indirectly, in a production then you gotta pay the performer.
In any of the cases above, if the woman had tried to take your camera

away, then that would be attempted or actual robbery. If she made
threats that you believed were real, that would be assault. If the
venue
was private property, and she was a legitimate representative of the
owner
or effective owner ( such as the producer of a show in a hired hall. ),
then
if you continue to tape after being requested to stop, you are
trespassing.

I've become familiar with this as I volunteer at science fiction
conventions,
often in the art show, where photography is not allowed, and in the
costume
masquerades, where it is. ( Since we usually get legal releases from the

costume performers for the convention video, even if we don't have plans
to make and sell one. )

--Dale