The Wedding Spy
On the other hand, with cameramen being fined upwards of US$86,000, SGAE may soon find itself hard-up for volunteers to carry out its dirty deeds.br / We will carry on doing it,” SGAE director Pedro Farre told the Times. “Using private detectives to investigate fraud is common. /pbr /pSGAE apparently doesn’t feel that it has done anything wrong, and apparently plans to continue crashing weddings in order to catch venues in the act (and maybe sneak a slice or two of cake in the act (and maybe sneak a slice or two of cake in the process)./pbr /p So the SGAE’s copyright enforcement cost it nearly €18,000—not including court costs. But although the group managed to bust the reception venue for copyright violations, SGAE itself has been fined for violating the privacy violations. La Doma video, a Seville court ruled that it could not be used as evidence of copyright violations because it was “a clear violation of the constitutional rights to a couple in Spain thanks to the efforts of the Spanish General Society of Authors and Editors (SGAE), a rights group for musicians and artists. La Doma was fined €43,179 for illegally using the music./pbr /p This real-life scenario happened to a person’s own image.” Despite this, La Doma was fined €43,179 for illegally using the music. The next time you have a wedding, make sure your videographer isn’t a secret spy for the RIAA or similar copyright group.

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