I’m curious, if you shoot a street scene in Germany is that the case? That you’d have to get everyone’s permission? That seems ... impractical.
It’s a common misconception here in Australia. You can film in public. I’ve had the public come up to me and try to tell me about ‘their rights’ and I have to politely inform them that, in this situation, they don’t have any.
We got the cops called on us in central Melbourne because we were shooting a music video outside a bank. There was an ATM in the far distance and the bank’s security guards were going on about it not being legal to shoot. Again, politely, we told them that we could in fact shoot on the public street.
The cops came. “This sounded a lot more interesting on the radio”, the guy told us. They left.
I went to Disney world as a kid in the 90s. I remember a big sign over the entrance telling us that filming for something would be happening and we could get a refund if that wasn't OK. No need under the law, but having the sign probably deescalated many situations.
In general the legal standard which gets applied in such cases is to check if the people are "Beiwerk". Meaning if the persons depicted are not the focus of the picture and more or less background props, then it is fine.
It’s a common misconception here in Australia. You can film in public. I’ve had the public come up to me and try to tell me about ‘their rights’ and I have to politely inform them that, in this situation, they don’t have any.
We got the cops called on us in central Melbourne because we were shooting a music video outside a bank. There was an ATM in the far distance and the bank’s security guards were going on about it not being legal to shoot. Again, politely, we told them that we could in fact shoot on the public street.
The cops came. “This sounded a lot more interesting on the radio”, the guy told us. They left.