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TL : DR
- A San Diego surfer is mad at people on the beach filming surfers and uploading the video to YouTube
- This guy says that the surfers have their own camera crew in the water (or film themselves) and plan to upload video of themselves on their channels, but these random people on the beach upload their vids before the surfers can edit and upload theirs.
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From Surfer magazine
There’s a conundrum in modern day professional free surfing.
On one hand, cameras are everywhere these days, increasing visibility for these surfers who rely on clips and edits and videos as a main part of their livelihoods.
Then, on the other, someone else – other than their filmer – may capture their best clips on the best day, then upload it. The clips are in the wild. The surfer may have been saving those clips for their own project. But the world has already seen them.
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I get his point: that it's unfair someone else is benefitting off of work they did not do; but I just can't see how you can stop random people filming in public. The only possible redress could be for YouTube to take the videos down if a surfer can prove they are pictured in the video and they did not give permission for video of their 'work' being uploaded.
YT can take stuff down for whatever reason they want. So if they agree it is unfair for Party X to monetize / benefit from content created by Party Y without Party Y's permission they may agree with this aggrieved surfer and his buddies.
- A San Diego surfer is mad at people on the beach filming surfers and uploading the video to YouTube
- This guy says that the surfers have their own camera crew in the water (or film themselves) and plan to upload video of themselves on their channels, but these random people on the beach upload their vids before the surfers can edit and upload theirs.
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From Surfer magazine
San Diego Pro Surfer Jacob 'Zeke' Szekely Condemns 'Random Filmers' During Historic Swell (WATCH)
There’s a conundrum in modern day professional free surfing.
On one hand, cameras are everywhere these days, increasing visibility for these surfers who rely on clips and edits and videos as a main part of their livelihoods.
Then, on the other, someone else – other than their filmer – may capture their best clips on the best day, then upload it. The clips are in the wild. The surfer may have been saving those clips for their own project. But the world has already seen them.
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I get his point: that it's unfair someone else is benefitting off of work they did not do; but I just can't see how you can stop random people filming in public. The only possible redress could be for YouTube to take the videos down if a surfer can prove they are pictured in the video and they did not give permission for video of their 'work' being uploaded.
YT can take stuff down for whatever reason they want. So if they agree it is unfair for Party X to monetize / benefit from content created by Party Y without Party Y's permission they may agree with this aggrieved surfer and his buddies.
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