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I do agree in general that regulation will both help and is necessary here, but part of what I'm saying is that people are using cameras much differently than t
by csydas 10y ago
I do agree in general that regulation will both help and is necessary here, but part of what I'm saying is that people are using cameras much differently than they have historically; no one is forcing people to take thousands of pictures a day for various social media just like Kodak wasn't forcing families to have Kodak Moments developed. It may be a result of advertising, but it's part of what we're doing now. And right now, what they're doing isn't really illegal. It's not desired by many, but it's also desired by many as well.
With US law anyways, I've not exactly been sure how remediation would work in an instance where you challenged for control and ownership of your likeness in a case like this. (e.g., a silly picture from a barwhere someone was dancing on the counter to Louie Louie or something). Once it's online, it's copied and repasted automatically by bots countless times as soon as it becomes scrapable - who is actually culpable during this?
Can you elaborate on what the German law actually states and does? This isn't challenging the notion or intent behind the German law, I just don't know how it works and would be curious to know specifically what's addressed and how the German courts have handled it.
- bildung 10y agoGerman law essentially establishes a citizen's right to deny publication of an image/recording etc. if that citizen is depicted recognizably. Exemptions are provided for cases like you snapping an image of a building or a group of your friends while I am just passing by (i.e. I am just incidentally part of the picture), or police mug shots. I, too, am seeing that technological developments change our assumptions of privacy and socially acceptable behaviour, BTW. I just wanted to point out that we as a society can also choose to prevent unwanted consequences if we deem them unacceptable.