According to this article, Stacy Daxe quit Facebook after attending a concert. “My enjoyment was marred by idiots filming the concert and posting links to their Facebook status,” Daxe said. “It was annoying, rude and quite ridiculous given the fact that the quality of those videos was so poor, even Batman wouldn’t have been able to see them.” The article continues stating, “In general, the person who owns the copyright in the musical composition embodied in the video has the exclusive right to publically perform it, reproduce it and distribute it,” said Margaret R. Marshall, shareholder and entertainment attorney at Greenberg Traurig law firm. Obviously artists don’t have the time to go after everyone who publicly posts videos of performances on social sites so people continue to do so. However, would you ever react like Stacy?
I am pretty offended that people use their phones to record live performances. It really spoils the drag show, ya know? Even coming at it from a layperson’s perspective, it’s a pretty useless practice.
I don’t consider it offensive that people record live performances on their phones. It is just a stupid practice if anything. Both the picture quality and sound quality often end up coming out horribly. Also, when these videos get posted online, they often get many negative comments for being so bad. So, one could consider this almost a non-issue.
There isn’t much harm in recording concerts, it’s simply people wanting to remember the event they are at, like a keepsake. It hs always been something that happens at concerts so this person should know that it’s one of the many aspects you get if you go to a concert. However, if someone is taping the entire concert that’s ridiculous and just obnoxious.