{"id":499240,"date":"2010-04-01T03:58:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T07:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100120\/1905027847.shtml"},"modified":"2010-04-01T03:58:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T07:58:00","slug":"disney-lawyers-chose-not-to-sue-you-for-posting-your-disney-world-vacation-videos-but-they-could","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/499240","title":{"rendered":"Disney Lawyers Chose Not To Sue You For Posting Your Disney World Vacation Videos… But They Could!"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a world where so much that you see and hear on a daily basis is covered by copyright, it certainly makes it difficult to just film people walking around, like on a vacation, and post it to the internet. It becomes even more<\/i> difficult when that vacation happens to be in a theme park, which is chock full of characters and content protected by copyright and trademark laws. Copycense<\/a> points us to an attempt by the site WalletPop to find out the legality of posting your Disney vacation family videos to YouTube<\/a> and basically gets back nothing close to a reasonable answer. The short version is that Disney’s lawyers basically have the option<\/i> to sue, but realize it’s probably a bad decision in most cases. But they certainly don’t encourage it, and you could see circumstances under which they might actually sue.<\/p>\n

Of course, some will immediately claim that there’s no real issue here, given that Disney has chosen not to sue. But just the very liability is a bit scary. What if you film too much of a ride? Or part of the ride has music or videos playing the background that might lead to legal threats? It certainly does create something of a chilling effect.<\/p>\n

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In a world where so much that you see and hear on a daily basis is covered by copyright, it certainly makes it difficult to just film people walking around, like on a vacation, and post it to the internet. It becomes even more difficult when that vacation happens to be in a theme park, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-499240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}