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Your Personal Facebook Live Videos Can Legally End Up on TV (thememo.com)
Kitty Knowles, reporting for the Memo: Think you control what happens to your personal videos? Think again. One father who live-streamed his partner's labour on Facebook last May, has found out the hard way: he saw the birth of his son replayed on Good Morning America and numerous other media outlets. This week, he lost a high-profile court battle against the broadcasters. If you don't want this to happen to you, don't make the same mistakes. It's one thing wanting to share a life-changing moment with friends and family. But most would understand why Kali Kanongataa didn't want his child's birth aired for all to see. That hasn't however, stopped a US judge throwing out Kanongataa's copyright infringement case against the likes of the ABC, Yahoo, and Rodale, the company that publishes Women's Health. Apparently, the father-to-be realised his film was streaming publicly on social media about 30 minutes into recording, but decided to leave it that way. Media outlets broadcasting the clips have defended doing so on the terms of "fair use." Legally, "fair use" means that when pictures or videos are the focus of a major news story, selected footage can be used.Heads up, Facebook will soon release a video app for set-top boxes by Apple and Amazon to broadcast Live videos on the big screen.
Even non-technical Facebook users know that it is a privacy nightmare .. so why keep one?
You want to stay in touch with friends and family -- EMAIL. At least there are some modest privacy protections in place for email accounts.
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This. Once a video hits the Internet, be it YouTube, Facebook, or some other source, effectively it can wind up on TV or become someone's propaganda tape. With Facebook, the users are the product; not the customers, so it is no wonder why the EULA is clear in allowing FB to do what they so please to whatever is stashed or uploaded.
If you want to compare TOS listings... the difference between my paid E-mail provider and my Gmail account is quite noticable. My paid provider says quite bluntly that they do not use any filter or search engine for ads on incoming E-mail, and that E-mail belongs to the end user, not them, and is only accessed by the mail provider in a limited number of circumstances.
You do get what you pay for. I keep Gmail around, but if I'm doing professional work, it goes to the Exchange hosted account.
There are public and private streaming options. He was recording to a public stream.
The article even says he noticed it was public after 30 minutes and left it that way.
I have every desire for legal privacy protections, but this guy basically waived them all. And then had the audacity to file a lawsuit.
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According to the latest ruleset, this post should be modded as Vorpal Flamebait +5.
Privacy no, copyright yes.
I can't rebroadcast the NFL just because it's already been on TV once. Somehow, the court decided fair use doesn't apply to the NFL but does to this guy's facebook stream.