Is it illegal to take videos of other people and post them on TikTok?

It is against the law to take videos of others and post them on TikTok without their consent. This behavior violates the privacy rights of others. Natural persons have the right to privacy. No organization or individual may infringe on the privacy rights of others through spying, intrusion, leakage, disclosure, etc.

Uploading videos without someone else’s permission is illegal and constitutes infringement.

Publishing photos or videos of others without their permission will result in serious consequences, and you will be subject to criminal liability. Posting photos and videos without others' permission is, first of all, infringing on others' right to portrait and privacy. If the consequences are serious, in addition to fines, you may also be jailed. The parties also have the right to hold the publisher accountable. If the party has caused serious personal injury or other reputational harm to the party, the party can sue the local court and ask for moral compensation

I took a video of another person without permission. It is illegal for others to agree to Tik Tok. This behavior violates the privacy rights of others. Natural persons have the right to privacy. No organization or individual may infringe on the privacy rights of others through spying, intrusion, leakage, disclosure, etc.

If it is an obscene video, it is suspected of disseminating obscene materials. If it is a general video, the author of the video enjoys copyright. Distributing it at will on the Internet may constitute a crime of copyright infringement. In addition, he will also bear civil tort liability for copyright infringement.

Our country’s laws stipulate that for the purpose of profit, without the permission of the copyright owner, the written works, music, movies, television, art, photography, video works, audio and video products, computers of others are disseminated to the public through information networks. Software and other works that fall under any of the following circumstances: the illegal business amount is more than 50,000 yuan, the total number of dissemination of other people's works is more than 500, and the actual number of clicks on other people's works is more than 50,000 times, a three-year fine shall be imposed. If the amount of illegal income is huge or there are other particularly serious circumstances, the offender shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years and not more than seven years, and shall also be fined.

Legal Basis

Article 42 of the "Public Security Administration Punishment Law of the People's Republic of China" Whoever commits any of the following acts shall be detained for not more than 5 days or fined not more than 500 yuan Fine; if the circumstances are serious, he shall be detained for not less than 5 days but not more than 10 days, and may also be fined not more than 500 yuan:

(1) Writing threatening letters or threatening the personal safety of others by other means;

(2) Publicly insulting others or fabricating facts to slander others;

(3) Fabricating facts to frame others in an attempt to subject others to criminal prosecution or public security management penalties;

(4) Threatening, insulting, beating or retaliating against witnesses and their close relatives;

(5) Repeatedly sending obscene, insulting, threatening or other messages that interfere with the normal life of others ;

(6) Peeping, filming, eavesdropping, or disseminating other people's privacy.