Careful posting those WDW vacation vids online!

[elemusing]

http://www.walletpop.com/blog/2010/...could-go-after-you-for-posting-vacation-vide/

Bascially says Disney, Universal, etc. have the right to sue you if you post your vacation videos online like on youtube. Unlikely, but could happen!

 

[Cyrano]

I will not be losing any sleep over this article

 

[WaltD4Me]

Please....it's free advertising.

 

[nedac]

Disney has bigger fish to fry than to sue a past and potentially future guest. Unless someone is using it to make money, they are fine.

 

[shawn68]

If they did sue, that would be bad PR move with tourism still down.

 

[FireDancer]

If you record and post an entire show I could see it getting taken down. If you are filming your family on vacation and some of the park or show is included I doubt Disney is going to issue a take down notice. This is the first step and not a lawsuit.

 

[WaltD4Me]

If you record and post an entire show I could see it getting taken down. If you are filming your family on vacation and some of the park or show is included I doubt Disney is going to issue a take down notice. This is the first step and not a lawsuit.

I don't even see the point in taking it down even if someone did record an entire show. I doubt anyone is going to watch the Beauty & the Beast show on You Tube and then say "Ok, I've seen it, no need to go to Disney now!" One of my favorite You Tube videos is pretty much the whole Festival of the Lion King Show, all watching it does for me is make me want to go back sooner!

I can totally understand if the video is on a pay site though. say 5 cents a view or something, but as long as the videos are free to watch, I can't see why Disney would care.

 

[doconeill]

It does however get in to a somewhat murky area, and may even fall into the "use or or lose it" clauses of intellectual property laws, such that if someone DID videotape all of Fantasmic, say, and then post it on YouTube, and Disney didn't do anything about it, then it could be argued that they waived their rights to their property and therefore I could go in, make a professional video, and begin selling it and Disney couldn't do anything about it.

Whether seeing such a video online may or may not make someone decide not to go to Disney actually doesn't factor in to these things - its more about the intellectual property. Videotaping your vacation, even a show, can fall under fair use to a point, so long as you are doing it for yourself, and perhaps showing a few friends. But YouTube offers no ways to limit who can see it (unlike Facebook), and therefore could be considered "public exhibition".

 

[jharrowell]

I personally don't see that this will be a problem.

It's not like this is new, this policy has been in place for as long as I can remember and they've not agressively attacked YouTubers before now.

If they decide to press anything, it'll be people who are selling WDW DVDs, etc. before they come after people like me who posted the 25th edition of Illuminations.

In any case, I think that if they did have an issue, they'd prefer to get it off the net rather than sue so they'll start with a "get it off now" letter and I'd be happy to oblige if they asked.

 

[WaltD4Me]

It does however get in to a somewhat murky area, and may even fall into the "use or or lose it" clauses of intellectual property laws, such that if someone DID videotape all of Fantasmic, say, and then post it on YouTube, and Disney didn't do anything about it, then it could be argued that they waived their rights to their property and therefore I could go in, make a professional video, and begin selling it and Disney couldn't do anything about it.

Whether seeing such a video online may or may not make someone decide not to go to Disney actually doesn't factor in to these things - its more about the intellectual property. Videotaping your vacation, even a show, can fall under fair use to a point, so long as you are doing it for yourself, and perhaps showing a few friends. But YouTube offers no ways to limit who can see it (unlike Facebook), and therefore could be considered "public exhibition".

Interesting. Never would have thought of it this way. I really thought that if you weren't making money from it, Disney was okay with you using their characters, images, ect...I remember a discussion about it I think on the Creativity Board where people were making Disney t-shirts (just for themselves and family) and there were some very nice people making designs FOR people to use for free and then someone got worried about copyright laws. Then, if I remember correctly, someone claiming to be a lawyer popped into the discussion and said as long as no one was selling the shirts or making money from the images they were fine.

 

[doconeill]

Interesting. Never would have thought of it this way. I really thought that if you weren't making money from it, Disney was okay with you using their characters, images, ect...I remember a discussion about it I think on the Creativity Board where people were making Disney t-shirts (just for themselves and family) and there were some very nice people making designs FOR people to use for free and then someone got worried about copyright laws. Then, if I remember correctly, someone claiming to be a lawyer popped into the discussion and said as long as no one was selling the shirts or making money from the images they were fine.

I am most definitely not a lawyer, but I did have some "close encounters" in the past. I was caught in the middle of lawyers and artists posturing in one case, having done an approved fan site for a group that had divided and operated as two separate groups with the same name in one case, and in another ironically involved YouTube and some promotional videos for a Universal property for which THEY provided the videos, and then said I couldn't use them - left arm/right arm stuff...

Disney might have a tough time in a lawsuit homemade t-shirts, but it could still be seen in court as a loss of income if it can be argued that someone did not buy a properly licensed shirt because they made one from a design off the net. Disney isn't LIKELY to go to court over such a thing. But they CAN send a cease and desist, which is the usual first action, and if complied with is usually the end of it in such situation.

DW has done t-shirts for us from the design boards, and she's gotten a LOT of complements on them (from a lot of CMs!), although the creators deserve all the credit...

I would just avoid using fully-public services like YouTube for such things anyways.

 

[trivial]

Disney's wording is intentionally vague as to not limit their ability to protect their intellectual property, but there's little chance they'll go after anyone for posting family vacation videos. Posting video of an entire show might be seen in a different light, understandably.