Braden Perry Discusses the Legality of Live Streaming in Classrooms with Parents.com
On Parents.com, Perry is highlighted discussing the legality of teachers using a live-stream feature in their classrooms. One particular mom discovered her child’s classroom was being live-streamed via a Facebook page, where over 100,000 followers were watching. Many teachers have been using live footage on Facebook, and other forms of social media to market and sell created materials to other teachers. Is what this teacher doing illegal?
“Standard social media releases are often very broad,” explains Braden Perry, regulatory and government investigations partner with the Kansas City-based law firm Kennyhertz Perry, LLC. They can cover rights to record children’s images, voices, artwork and written work on video, photographs, digital media, or any other form of electronic or print medium, and the right to edit those recordings.
“While ‘technically’ covered, the releasees (the parents) likely did not think commercial endeavors with vast audiences would be at issue,” he says. Because of this, the parents were unable to give informed consent when signing their media releases.”
To read the article in full: https://www.parents.com/news/is-it-legal-for-a-teacher-to-livestream-a-classroom/
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