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Right now, I am putting myself at risk of being sued.

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Why? Well, I'm filming in public, in Paris, in France.

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And French privacy law is some of the strictest and worst-defined in the world.

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See, it's been built over years, not by lawmakers, but by judges and case law.

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And what it means is this: just having someone identifiable in the back of my shot,

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even if I then don't publish it, might be grounds for someone to sue me.

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Or, maybe it won't. It's unclear.

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There are cases that have gone both ways. Maybe I should blur anyone's face

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who's even remotely in the back of shot, or

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maybe I shouldn't. It's still unclear.

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Maybe, if there's any modern architecture in the back of the shot,

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I should blur it out because that's copyrighted.

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Or, maybe under some other cases, it isn't.

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One thing has been clear though: I can take a photo of the Eiffel Tower in daytime,

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and it's fine, it's not under copyright any more.

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But, if I take a photo at night, the lighting design on it - that is copyrighted.

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And so, I'd need a license before I were to publish that online.

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To make matters even more complicated, I am British,

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and I'll be publishing this when I'm in Britain,

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to YouTube which is an American company,

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which has an office in France.

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It would be a complete mess. Maybe I'd win if someone brought a case against me,

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maybe I wouldn't. But, either way, there'd be a long and costly legal battle.

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British law has a reasonable expectation of privacy in your own home, or in a private place

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but in public, if you're filmed, there's not much you can do about it.

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American law is much the same based on their First Amendment,

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and their very strong freedom of speech laws.

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But here? Well, France puts the power very much in the individual and their right to privacy

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over my right to film them.

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Maybe that's right. Maybe that's wrong. And, as for all these tourists around here taking photos, well...

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let's hope nobody sues them.

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Bye bye, Duggan!