Is it illegal to videotape and compile videos from events on a party bus if all in the video are of age but didn’t consent to being on the video?
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Is it illegal to videotape and compile videos from events on a party bus if all in the video are of age but didn’t consent to being on the video?
The owner of the bus takes videos shot from camera phones used on the bus and compiles all of the videos to show to people. Or it is possible that he has a camera wired on the bus. Some of the footage is provocative and sexual in nature and the people in the video did not consent to being videotaped.
Asked on March 13, 2012 under Personal Injury, Michigan
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Answered 12 years ago | Contributor
Under the laws of all states in this country, if a person goes on a party bus as you have written and videotape is made of the event by some third person, there is nothing wrong with doing so. The reason is that under the laws of all states in this country, people who get onto this bus that is in public do not have a justifiable expectation of privacy as to them being depicted in a videotape.
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