[Tango-L] Videos of Dancing at Milongas

[Stephen.P.Brown@dal.frb.org]

In the past few months, several people have posted videos on YouTube 
and/or personal websites/blogs of others dancing at milongas at various 
tango festivals.

A milonga is a private social event.  It is not a performance.  Nor is it 
news in the sense that an individual's simple pariticipation creates an 
implicit right of usage.  I know that to some extent that private lives 
have become more public in the United States, but this outing has been 
voluntary by of those seeking personal publicity.

In seems to me that someone shooting a video of a milonga and posting it 
to  his website/blog or YouTube is making an unwarranted and uninvited 
invasion of privacy.

Maybe I am wrong.
Maybe the people attending the milongas who were captured in the videos 
signed releases allowing their dancing to be filmed and publically 
distributed?
Maybe the organizers of the events included a notice that the events may 
be video taped and publically distributed?

The organizers of tango festivals often ban video recording of the classes 
and the instructors' performances.  Maybe the organizers should also 
explicity ban video cameras from the milongas.

With best regards,
Steve