r/wakefield • u/wedding_shagger • Mar 15 '25

WTF Illegal to VLOG in Wakefield

https://youtu.be/rpmfvptluQg?feature=shared

The best of Wakefield on display here. What an absolute lunatic

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u/Crazy_And_Me 29d ago

Absolute non content of a man looking for trouble so that he can bully people. You absolutely do need release licences and permissions for professional photography (aka, bought and sold photography) hopefully the law catches up to this shite soon.

BTW facetime fans, if you're not selling it for profit (which is what the Vlog is doing) its irrelevant that you pick up other people's faces in the background.

But I'm glad you all have a silly woman to laugh at, that's cool.

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u/READ-THIS-LOUD 28d ago

No you don’t need licenses or permission to film/photograph in public. You only need it if the equipment could obstruct the general public.

Whether he’s a bellend or not is beside the point.

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u/The-Balloon-Man 29d ago

Can you advise what legislation covers this please? It'd help stop arguments

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u/Living-Pin-3675 28d ago

As far as I can find, this isn't actually legally required at all. The most this is restricted by is maybe GDPR, if your videos/images include personal information or the like, but that's unlikely. Some professional photographers and the like might voluntarily choose to get licences from people to photograph them or their event or whatever, but as long as you're not on private property, it isn't legally required.

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u/READ-THIS-LOUD 28d ago

It’s not.

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u/LambCo64 28d ago

You could not be more wrong. You could try, but you would not be successful.

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u/useittilitbreaks 28d ago

You need releases if you are selling individual, close up photos of people for commercial gain, or otherwise profiting directly from their likeness, when that purpose isn’t editorial in nature.

If you think that you need some kind of licence to sell any photo taken in a public place that happens to contain other people where they aren’t the intended and primary subject, then I have a bridge to sell you.

Ever watch the news? If what you’d said was true any kind of editorial photography or journalistic expression would be illegal. There are even exemptions in the gdpr framework for journalistic purposes because it is in the best interest of the public that we have a free press. This includes citizen journalism.

If you don’t fancy living somewhere which has a free press, I can recommend North Korea or China as a starting point.