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monkpityesterday at 10:23 PM5 repliesview on HN

It doesn’t mean _inside_ the apartment. It means if they decide to film a commercial and you’re walking your dog in the background, they don’t have to ask you.


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bigiainyesterday at 11:11 PM

That sounds a lot like a rationalization desperately grasping at "surely it's not as insane as it sounds, what it _must_ mean is ... "

I would want to read and perhaps get legal advice before relying on that interpretation - and before finding I signed over rights to my landlord to make candid porn of me and all his other tenants.

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nkriscyesterday at 11:20 PM

If it didn’t say it, it doesn’t mean it.

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gerdesjyesterday at 11:52 PM

Thank goodness you read the contract they signed and provided competent legal expertise throughout the process.

thaynetoday at 2:11 AM

That is probably why it is in there, and probably how it would be used in practice. But these types of documents are almost written to be as broad and ask you to give up as many rights as possible.

smcleodyesterday at 11:08 PM

Oh right, that's not so bad. Isn't that just being part of modern society? It would be nice to opt to never be recorded but also, it's outside.