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- How Could That Even Happen?
- What Sorts of Things Have Happened?
- How Is Livestreaming policed?
- Where Does Government Regulation Stand?
- Do Defamation Laws Apply to Livestreams?
- What About Criminal Consequences?
- Is There A Level Playing field?
A little over a year ago Facebook launched a feature called Facebook Live that allows anyone to create live broadcasts for the world to watch. At the launch, company founder Mark Zuckerberg said: "Live is like having a TV camera in your pocket. Anyone with a phone now has the power to broadcast to anyone in the world." After the video has been broa...
In July 2016, the girlfriend of a man shot and killed by police in Minnesota livestreamed the aftermath, including pictures of his bloodied body. There have also been livestreams of a drive-by attackon three men in a car and the racially-motivated abuse of a white intellectually disabled man. Then in April this year in Cleveland, a man named Steve ...
At the moment, the livestreaming platforms are essentially regulating themselves. YouTube, Facebook and other social networking sites all have community standards and procedures for taking down content once they have been alerted to inappropriate material. In the case of Facebook Live, once a user alerts Facebook, a person in the 'Community Operati...
Back when television and radio were kings, Australian law was clear that a station had responsibility for the content it broadcast. But the law in relation to internet content providers is much murkier. In the late 1990s, Australian broadcasting law was changedto give some protection to "content hosts" and "service providers" who physically host co...
A defamation claim is typically a claim for damages brought against a person or company that published or said something untrue that hurts the reputation of the person making the claim. Defamation laws do apply to internet content, whether that be a reader comment on a news story or a live video stream. The real bone of contention is who and where ...
There are a few criminal law issues that arise out of the use of video services on social media. In the age of mass terrorism, it is conceivable that someone could be encouraged to commit horrific acts by the fact they can broadcast what they are doing to a large audience. Has the platform provider incited a criminal act? David Vaile of the Univers...
As it stands, while livestreaming platforms may be able to escape liability for user-generated content, existing broadcasters are held accountable for everything they broadcast, including during live broadcasts and talkback calls. In 1998 in his seminal legal textbook, The Law of Torts, Professor John Fleming describedthe legal position (in regards...
Jan 26, 2017 · A YOUNG teen live-streamed her suicide on Facebook. Naika Venant died on Sunday after broadcasting the tragedy from the bathroom of her Miami home for two hours.
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Oct 17, 2017 · A video of her death streamed on Live.me for more than 40 minutes before it cut out. She had regularly shared her feelings of depression and hopelessness on the site prior to taking her...
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23 July: After murdering his ex-girlfriend and her sister, a Tallahassee, Florida man streamed his suicide on Facebook Live. [ 77 ] August: An Oklahoma teenager was accidentally shot in the face by another teenager.
