Other legal Issue Relating to Video Sharing (1)

Copyright Act isn't the only legal issue you have to be aware of when you do video sharing.
Material posted on the Internet is subject to exactly the same legal rules as material printed in a newspaper or magazine, or broadcast on television or radio.That means online statements or footage which have the potential to cause damage to a person's reputation are covered by the laws of defamation, as they are anywhere else.

Ex-MP in legal action threat over YouTube video

Published Date: 02 July 2008
By Ed O'Mara
FORMER Peterborough MP Helen Clark has threatened to take legal action after a film of her involved in an altercation in a Peterborough hotel was posted on a video hosting website.

A YouTube video, apparently filmed on a mobile phone, shows Mrs Clark embroiled in a row with staff in the bar of a city centre hotel.

During the 73-second clip, she furiously accuses a hotel employee of victimising and humiliating her.

When the former Labour MP was contacted by The Evening Telegraph yesterday, she declined to comment on the video but said she would be seeking legal advice.

She said: "I will be contacting my lawyers. "

I don't want to say anything about it, but obviously I will be taking legal action."

Mrs Clark, who served as Peterborough's MP between 1997 and 2005, is shown in the film sitting with a friend at a table in the bar area of the Great Northern Hotel.

The footage begins part way through a heated exchange between Mrs Clark and an unseen female employee. Although it is not clear from the clip what the dispute is about, the poster of the video claims it was sparked after Mrs Clark was refused service by staff.

Loudly protesting she has been wronged by the hotel worker, she says: "Why was I treated like this?"

Mrs Clark then appears to become distressed and says: "I was just sitting here. I did nothing wrong. What did I do wrong?"

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