Techno Viking Takes Youtube Uploader To Court
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It says things like "[punishment] would send a confusing message to Youtube uploaders everywhere, so it will be interesting to see how the German courts approach this matter." In Germany there is the so called "Recht am eigenen Bild" which means you cannot just film random people and share the images or even exploit them for money. This is a law specific to Germany. Its application does not mean much for "Youtubers everywhere".
I strongly support this as a matter of privacy. Gawking is creepy.
And before someone says some "but he was in a public space, he was at a public event" yadda yadda: See KunstUrhG §23 (2) "Die Befugnis erstreckt sich jedoch nicht auf eine Verbreitung und Schaustellung, durch die ein berechtigtes Interesse des Abgebildeten (...) verletzt wird."
I don't think that law is unusual, in Argentina we have it too, and sounds like something very basic anyone would want (though creeps don't seem to understand it, and act surprised when they realize such law exist, and start complaining on their lack of freedom and whatnot, lol). I thought it kind of came packaged with the IP laws that the US pushed everywhere.
You can film the police and film public figures all you want, as long as they're acting in their public capacity. You're allowed to film Angela Merkel doing her state visit, going to the beach with Barack Obama and later publish that clip. You're not allowed to film her naked in her private backyard.
The border between the two is sometimes hard to determine, so there are some lawsuits about that, but all in all it's pretty clear.
I'm sorry but different countries have different sets of laws, and it turns out there are whole legal systems which disagree with your overly broad assertions.
Actually I'm not sorry at all, you are in serious need of a clue.
He doesn't say "Wow, it's ridiculous that Germany has different laws. How dare they!"
Instead of talking about whether or not his view of privacy is correct, this comment thread has devolved into a "look at this clueless foreigner" match.
It comes down to how you want to live your life. While Zuck bombastically preaches that "privacy is dead" and the rest of us American sheeple fall in line, those in Germany have seen the worst of authoritarianism under the Nazis and the Soviets and have chosen how they want to live. Not a bad idea.
This isn't limited to Germany, it's a European-wide directive. And I fail to see how it can be viewed as negative.
Often times the additional cost of the mandatory warranty will put a product out of reach for people who would be happy with the mfr's standard warranty.
What sort of electronics products have a failure rate so high that the costs of a 2 year warranty is anything but trivial?
Excellent.
My point was that we're capitalists. Government should only intervene to prevent others from harming me or my property as the base understanding of the word.
Who is the government to tell me the hours I can operate my business, the restrictions I can enforce on my employees, what I can coerce people into buying, or how others can exploit my likeness? They might all seem like sensible restrictions in Europe, but I've known a good many Americans who want to retain that freedom, even if it leaves our life expediencies behind the third world at the end of the day.
Finally, I threw in the authoritarianism regime reference as an example of the extremes that society can find itself in. Germany, as a wealthy, highly educated country has made the decision that they want to live well in many ways at the cost of some "freedoms" that we defend. While we're "free," I must admit that I passed twelve homeless people today on the way to work while I never saw a one my entire stent in Germany.
I'm not saying one is better than the other, but it is a different way of thinking that you must consider before you blast their Bild law.
Outrageous!
True and that assertion holds as well in germany. The issue with the techno-viking video is that he is not shown as part of the parade, but specifically and personally filmed and made the center of the video. This is the point where it crosses the line from filming a public parade with the techno viking being part to filming the techno viking as a person. The first would be completely legal, the second requires a permission of the person.
If there is public interest in a specific person, pictures of that person can be published (within the limits what's newsworthy to the public) without their consent.
Lawsuits in this area are not uncommon, since it's hard to nail down the specifics.
And the techno festival known as Fuckparade wound its way down Rosenthaler Straße didn't even warrant a mention in your list of weirdness.
Nobody survives being over-danced by Techno Viking.
They say he's "The only man who could kill Chuck Norris", to me that is an understatement. I'd say "The reason Chuck Norris does not dare to visit Berlin" is more accurate.
I really wish his meme would die already.