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by Suzuran 749 days ago
Yes, but only because the footage was being used commercially for broadcast. Depending on who was doing the filming they may also have been required to pay the subject; For example, a person who accidentally entered an active shoot of a Hollywood movie encountered the actors and had a short conversation with them. The footage turned out to work well with the scene, and the director wanted to keep it. In order to do so, not only did they have to pay this person and give them credit for a speaking role, they had to be given membership in the Screen Actors' Guild.
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pimlottc 749 days ago
> For example, a person who accidentally entered an active shoot of a Hollywood movie encountered the actors and had a short conversation with them. The footage turned out to work well with the scene, and the director wanted to keep it. In order to do so, not only did they have to pay this person and give them credit for a speaking role, they had to be given membership in the Screen Actors' Guild.

Did this actually happen or are you speaking hypothetically?

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Suzuran 749 days ago
It happened but I don't remember which movie. It's not the often-quoted Star Trek instance - In that case, the woman was a first-time extra who was not aware that extras are not supposed to speak, even when directed to "act natural". In the case I am thinking of, they forgot to rope off a park entrance or something like that, and someone who regularly went there just did their usual thing and blundered into an active shoot.
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giantg2 749 days ago
"but only because the footage was being used commercially for broadcast."

Influencer is now a job. They make money off of sponsorship. Even if they aren't currently making money or taking sponsors they are generating goodwill towards their brand, which does have monetary value as denoted on balance sheets and can be used to future commercial value.

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ghaff 749 days ago
And of course, at the time, publishing was pretty much synonymous with commercial publishing. (Though newspapers, magazines, news broadcasts, etc. have had broad exemptions for editorial publication in the US.)
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