Video bloggers in Europe

I live to watch the new Zazon video every week. The video are candid camera style, but this week, the author commented that it is not so difficult to film, as it is to obtain the droit à l'image. The droit à l’image is not expressly mentioned in any French codes or laws. It is judges who built it by interpreting articles of the Code civil and of the criminal Code. Article 9 of the civil Code declares that everyone has the right to have his private life respected. However, “private life” is not defined, and that vagueness allowed the judges to build the droit à l’ image doctrine. Article 9, coupled with the article 1382 of the civil Code, which is the fundamental article for civil tort claim in French law, creates an action against whomever would not respect somebody else’s private life. There is no need to prove damages, the mere violation of someone private life is enough.

Video bloggers may be soon considered as television programmers in the European Union. I will find out more about it soon.