Daughter filmed and on TV, shouldn't they have asked my permission????

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We were on the beach today, and there was a bloke filming something to do with life guards. Thought nothing more of it until Dad rang up all surprised and said my daughter, 3, was on the news. There was a close up of her building a sand castle in her cozzie.

I'm not really upset or anything, just a bit intrigued about the man not asking my permission to broadcast it. Should he have?

not if she was in a public place but they shold maybe have told you they filmed her as a courtesy

I suppose it also depend on what the commentary was saying. If they said "Here's a child enjoying the beach" it would be received differently to "This child was making a sand castle, not far from the sea, while her parents were eating a picnic and didn't seem to be watching her"...

(I'm not expecting them to have said any such thing, but if it was concerning the life guards, you never know what "angle" they might have chosen to use while showing members of the public, oblivious of the filming.)

It's not illegal but may be breaching some policy or other -- but if in a public place and just used as a "filler" then probably not even that.

Film production student here, so know a little about it. It's not illegal, but they ARE required to put signs up saying that they're filming in xyz areas and if you go there then you automatically consent to you/your children being filmed, and the footage being used.