Dive-N-Dog
lvl.3
Flight distance : 1087028 ft
United States
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Here is some food for thought, and yes this is for US citizens.
We all have posted a video on YouTube that we have recorded with our beloved quad-copters, but did you know that your video might get you into trouble with the FAA? Your probably asking how. Well, let's say you shoot a video of your dog using your quad-copter in the backyard of your own house and your well over five miles from any airport. Then you post said video on YouTube. That seems pretty harmless right? The truth is it is quite harmless your hobbyist flying your quad-copter and made a video on your own property of your own dog did not receive any income for it. Here's the caveat if your YouTube channel or the video that you posted allows advertising you just crossed over the line from being a hobbyist to commercial or business. If you use music in your video that is not royalty-free you've crossed over the line and became commercial or business. FAA Law Even though you may or may not receive any revenue for these ads or music. The FAA can exploit this technicality and in some cases they have.
Not saying that the FAA's trolling all of YouTube looking for people to bust, but if they do receive complaints about someone's video and find out that they are in fact having ads or the type of music run in their video they could take you down for a $10,000 fine or more.
I know that in your YouTube channel you have the capability of disabling ads from appearing on your videos. You may want to consider doing this when posting any videos filmed from a quad-copter or UAV. Might not be a bad idea to make sure that your videos do not have any ads on them or running before them also if you use music in your video be sure that it's 100% royalty free.
-Dog
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