Photography or participation in video filming are elements of a person's private life. By law, the private life of a Russian citizen is considered a family secret and is not subject to disclosure. But if the person himself agreed, then you can shoot it. In other cases, a lot depends on where the shooting takes place.
Filming can be in a public place or indoors. Each case has its own subtleties.
Shooting in a public place
A public place in the context of a shoot is a street, a restaurant, or a celebrity concert. By law, you are supposed to ask people for permission before filming them. Without permission, you can if:
- this is shooting at a wedding, birthday or other holiday, where people agree in advance that they will be photographed or filmed;
- filming a celebrity concert, where the media negotiate with the concert participants the right to shoot and upload the video in advance and make it into the contract, and the people who came to listen to the concert know that the filming will take place.
When to ask for permission:
- when shooting on the street and the operator focused on one person;
- filming in a cafe or restaurant, for example, in order to find out how sanitary standards are observed.
In the latter case, the operator must ask permission from each person that got into the frame.
On the street, you can shoot without permission, if people in the frame just walk by - no attention is focused on their faces or their faces are not visible at all.
You cannot use a video if:
- one person got into the frame, whose face, items of clothing, body parts are clearly visible, but this person did not give permission to shoot;
- the operator ignored the person's request not to remove him or his clothing.
It should be remembered that the elements of privacy that are protected by law are clothing and close-ups of body parts too. And for such shooting, you also need to ask people for permission.
Indoor shooting
You can shoot in public places. In private premises that are considered private property - no.
Exceptions to the rule:
- filming with the permission of the owner of the house;
- the owner of the house takes pictures;
- if we are talking about rented housing: the owner of the property allowed the filming, and the tenant agreed to be filmed;
- shooting for payment under the contract.
A video filmed in a public place cannot be made publicly available, you cannot sell it and make a profit from it.
