Where the trouble arises is if you try to make money off of me. I didn’t have any reasonable expectation of privacy, and so you could record me, and you could post it. If you record a video of me in the public, and I don’t like the video, and people are being mean, I really can’t do much about that. And that’s actually where we’ve seen successful suits. You have to be careful in assuming that you’re just sharing something because it’s on the internet is okay. I’m losing money because other people are sharing it, and what should I do about that?” That’s a copyright issue. Now, a lot of people don’t care, but I’ve certainly had people call me and say, “My viral video, on which I’m making money because I have commercials on it or I’m selling it to the news. You see that a lot with the viral videos where people get upset because they want to make money off their video, and they’re upset that people are copying the video and sharing it. The person who recorded the video or took the photo owns copyright in it, and they can choose to enforce that. It’s not a big deal.” But that’s actually not true. A lot of people think, “if it’s on the internet, I can share it. You know the copyright on the internet confuses a lot of people. let’s say you recorded a video of yourself, you have copyright in that video, and people can’t just share it. However, the law does require that if the item, if the image should violate the law, whether it’s violating copyright or violating child pornography rules or violating some other law, that there be a methodology through which you can ask the website to take it down, but that would be. The person responsible for posting is the person who would have any, for the most part, any legal ramifications, not the website. Here in the United States, we have laws that provide a great deal of protection to the websites. You’re violating their privacy in an extreme way, and you really want to be careful if the person is underage because if they’re underage, even if you don’t know, now we have a child pornography problem. That’s actually a criminal case because when you take a picture of somebody in a state of undress, you’re going beyond just simply recording someone in public. I’m thinking back to the model who shamed a woman - took a picture of her in a partial state of undress and then shamed her. And it’s reasonable to have that expectation. We as a society generally expect that as we’re undressing or dressing we have an expectation of privacy. If you take a picture of somebody partially undressed or as they’re dressing in a locker room or in a bathroom, now you’re violating a whole different set of rules. It’s another thing if you start recording in the locker room. Let’s say there’s no specific rules, and you start recording somebody. Stop recording.” And of course a lot of private spaces that are public, let’s say you’re in a gym, for example, it’s one thing to record in the gym. Of course, Apple would have to tell her, “Leave.
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