Hello I have set up a local community forum for my town. We have some street entertainers in the town and i have created a thread where most of them are displayed - utube clips, info about their act. One of the entertainers has asked me to removed his details from the thread. Can he legally have his details reomved or can i ignore him. There are no personal details, just a video of him in action which he put on utube and some stuff on who he is.
That depends on laws within your jurisdiction, which no one here can answer. Everyone else can give opinions, but that's all they are that may or may not be based in reality. Unless any specific law in your area addresses this, you don't really have to do anything for that person. Of course, that person could sue if s/he's inclined to and can afford it, however absurd it may be. Ultimately, it's up to you. Good luck.
Thats all depend on license. If he has license and pendent for his content, then you must remove his content because it is officially and legally his private property. You can not use it without permission. If not, then don't worry, he can ask about this.
He can get the video removed from YouTube by saying that the video is offensive to him and balbablabal but its up to you if you want to remove it or whatever, I would remove it if you want to have a good relationship with your community.
Is he a forum member? Did you write something like private policie in your forum that the users should accept before thay join?
If he put the video on YouTube and you are embedding the YouTube video on your website, I don't see it being illegal. If he wants it down, all he would have to do is login to his account and disable his videos from being embedded. That still does not mean that he can't sue you if he wants to.
If you have it directly embedded from Youtube then there is not much of an issue. Out of common courtesy though, I would remove it if I was asked.
I don't think it is illegal but I would remove it anyway since he asked you directly. if you want to be seen as professional and a nice person to work with then just remove what he asked you to remove. I also would not write a note on your forum saying he asked you to remove the items because that might cause trouble too. Just remove the items and walk away.
Yes, he can. He has two legal grounds: Right to Publicity and Right to Privacy. He/She decides when to publicize their likeness; they also have the right to limit such publicity by claiming "privacy" concerns. Steve Schiffman Attorney-at-Law Las Vegas, NV
See my reply relating to right of privacy and right of publicity. So, jurisdiction is not an issue (when it comes to any media that is received in the USA -- such as this forum).
Not every state recognizes a right to publicity so jurisdiction is certainly an issue, about half of the states do not recognize such a right and there is no Federal right. With respect to his claimed right of privacy, that would be a tough claim to win if he uploaded his video to youtube and allowed for embedding of the video. He would not likely be able to turn around and successfully sue someone who merely embedded the video which he posted and left available for that purpose. The common sense thing would be just to take down the video he asked you to take down and not be an ass about it. It is unlikely he would sue you since he could just disable embedding of the video.
Perhaps I misread the initial inquiry. The issue was not about the link of "YouTube" but rather what seemed to be other information e.g. "removed his details from the thread". Are we speaking about the same things? Embedded link to "YouTube" versus so-called personal details? While technically not a federal issue e.g. of Zacchini v. Scripps-Howard Broadcasting, but rather state law, I would argue, as a copyright lawyer, that such a right of publicity is part of copyright (although it can be argued, otherwise -- depending on who is paying to argue the case!).
Point of clarification: "There are no personal details, just a video of him in action which he put on utube and some stuff on who he is.' What exactly constituted "some stuff on who he is"? That is the issue, and not so much the Youtube link.