Pennsylvania Entertainment Legal Questions

Ultimately, the employer who refused to hire you gave you a valid reason -- refusal to participate in your fraud on your state's unemployment agency. Since employment, if any, in the U.S. is on an "at will" basis, failure to follow through on a promise of terminable-at-will employment results in no actionable damages. This result is even stronger under circumstances where you were seeking an illegal result (a legal doctrine called "in pari delicto").... Read More

Verbal consent is legally sufficient, but not the best idea because of the difficulty in proving what exactly the consent was given for. If you have video of the consent, that could suffice if you had to prove your position. Getting consent in writing is always the best idea because it is clear exactly what the other person consented to.... Read More

That is not a good idea. People have a right of publicity (also called right of privacy) that prohibits your use of their images for various purposes. These laws vary state by state but generally they prohibit the use of someone's likeness for commercial purposes or invasion of privacy for publicizing private facts about private individuals. You can send the clip to a show, and they will make the decision based on the clip whether they believe they are free to publicize it. ... Read More

From what you say, no you cannot do that without permission. The copyright laws prohibit the public display of a copyrighted work without authorization. Displaying a work means showing a copy of the work, directly or via some device or process. A display is considered public in one of four situations: (i) when it is at a place open to the public; (ii) when it is at a place with a group of people larger than a gathering of family or the normal circle of friends; (iii) when it is transmitted to a place open to the public or a group of people larger than a gather of family or the normal circle of friends; or (iv) where it is transmitted to the public (i.e., television and radio broadcasts). In fact, under 17 USC Sec. 110, TV broadcasts and movie showings can only be displayed so long as "no such audiovisual device has a diagonal screen size greater than 55 inches, and any audio portion of the performance or display is communicated by means of a total of not more than 6 loudspeakers." ... Read More