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INDEXAre releases/permission for filming the general public at a trade show in Germany needed?
7 years, 11 months ago - Rebekah Renford
Hello everyone! I wonder if anyone can help provide advice on releases/permissions?
I'm going to be shooting some corporate content at a trade show next week in Germany. Normally we would only acquire a signed release form from anyone who is featured or a focal point in our footage, however our clients insist there has been a change to EU law that says regardless of people being featured or a focal point, we still need permission to use footage with the public in it. We want to shoot the event as a whole and show the buzz of it for example so people passing in and out of frame wouldn't be featured but may still be visible. Does anyone know anything further about the permissions required for this sort of thing?
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7 years, 11 months ago - Paddy Robinson-Griffin
If your clients insist this, it doesn't really matter what anyone here thinks. Sounds like it shouldn't be the case, but, specifically, they're not in public, but at a private event, and maybe this affects things.
How about you turn the camera to face an internal wall of your booth and draw lines in the floor for "on set", and make a bit of a thing of it?
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7 years, 11 months ago - Franz von Habsburg FBKS MSc
Very often at such an event you will find displayed - maybe printed on entry tickets "by entering here you are giving permission to being filmed". We get that at the BAFTAs and similar.
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