Is it legal for security guards to take your video tape?

Question

On Tom Green's website he's said that when he does crazy interviews with people sometimes security guards freak out and want the camera and the tape and smash it on the street. How can this be legal?

Answer 1

If you are on private property, security has the right to confiscate the tape, tell you can't film, and order you off property.

Places like malls, movie theaters, restaurants and stores are all private properties that permit the public access but can deny access to anyone they choose. If permission is not granted to film, you can't do it.

If you refuse to stop filming or give the tape to them when requested, they are well within their rights to call the police and have you arrested for trespassing.

Answer 2

You still have to be obtain permission to film private property. If the filmer doesn't have permission, the security guards, as enforcement of the private property owners have the right to the tapes which contain images, which, without their signed release, are proprietary of the private property, not the filmer.
Now, if someone brings tape of something else onto private property, the guards cannot confiscate that (although they can hold it long enough to verify that there is no footage of the property).

Answer 3

In Texas for example,should he do an interview on private property against the wishes of management,then yes,they will order security to confiscate the tape and compensate the cameraman for it,but under no circumstances are they even allowed to destroy private property. They will be opening themselves to a civil lawsuit not only against the property owner,but the guards as well.

Answer 4

It is not, if the security guard breaks property of a perosn, they will have to pay for it out of thier own pocket.

If the person was not suppose to be taping and they are asked to leave, they can take the tape for thier company to desideif they have the right to keep it or not.

Answer 5

It's kind of a thorny issue. If you're on private property, you technically need permission to videotape or photograph anything. But that doesn't give the security guard the right to take your camera or destroy anything. So in that sense, it's not legal. Security guards aren't police and do not have the right to "seize" anything that doesn't belong to their employer.

Answer 6

Security guards are only wanna be cops who have no right to touch you much less destroy your property. I have always dreamed of one of those idiots to lay a hand on me in any way so I would have a reason to whup em up side thier head. lol

Answer 7

I doubt it as it would be distruction of private property.

Answer 8

nope he will get fired in a heart beat

Answer 9

.in my opinion is not legal because is breaking your privacy.