Arabic suits the producers of the series because of its appearance in the promotional video

A person of the nationality of an Arab country filed a lawsuit before the Civil Court in Dubai, in which he requested that the company producing a series to be presented on a global platform to broadcast films, series and entertainment programs, to stop publishing the promotional video of the work in which it appears without his knowledge – as he claimed – and withdrawing all the copies in the market, and obliging it to provide an official apology and publish it with a popular official newspaper in the UAE, in addition to a financial compensation of 480 thousand dirhams The damage to it, and the legal benefit is 9% of the date of the claim, but the court rejected the lawsuit after it was proven that it was fired financially to appear in the video, and its prior knowledge of filming.

In detail, the prosecutor said in the case statement that he was invited to a wedding, and was surprised after months of his appearance in a scene in the series that the platform broadcast while dancing and swaying, while his family at that time was going through a mourning and condolences for the loss of some of their relatives.

He added that he did not know that he was photographed and appeared in a television show that millions would see, pointing out that he contacted the service of the platform customers and asked them to delete the clip, and not to be displayed without written approval from it.

He pointed out that what happened is a flagrant infringement of its privacy, dignity, personality and freedom, indicating that he was hurt by a lot of the scene that appeared in the promotional video of the series, and had a negative impact on his reputation, and his relationship with his family members and friends, which caused him oppression, impotence and feeling of shame.

He continued that he underwent psychological treatment by specialized doctors who diagnosed his condition with a condition of adaptation, mood disorder, severe depression, as a result of the defendant’s actions, and intentionally photographing it without his knowledge, which deserves compensation, and provided a document portfolio folded on a copy of the video, and a copy of the prosecutor’s special medical report.

In turn, the defendant company submitted a legal memorandum, requesting the refusal of the lawsuit, and submitted a copy of the receipt of a cash receipt signed by the plaintiff.

After hearing the lawsuit, the court explained that after reading the file and documents, the plaintiff stated that he invited him to a wedding, and was surprised by his appearance in the video while dancing without his knowledge, but that the constant from watching the video was that he was dancing with a playing machine, which indicates his consent and his acceptance of that matter, and his knowledge of filming and his practice of that, and the video did not include any intentional abuse to him or what he might get or scratch his reputation Or consider it, or what it may expose it to the contempt of its family and the people or their contempt for it.

The court indicated that it did not extract any abuse or damage to his reputation in this context, and the document submitted from it is fixed in the date of broadcasting the video, while it is fixed from the receipt of receipt of a cash amount provided by the defendant on a two -day later date of the date of the video broadcast, and it corresponds to the date of his invitation to the wedding, which confirms the validity of what the company reported to the defendant by defense that the plaintiff was invited to the ceremony for the purpose of displaying a wedding, Experienced, and before all the conditions.

The defendant confirmed that everyone was alerted before entering the ceremony that he is closed and limited to invitations, because it will be filmed in the framework of a television program, and there were warning signs at the door that “if you do not want to be photographed, do not enter this area”, and then there is no attack on the sanctity of the life of the plaintiff.

The court clarified that the defendant company presented what is proven to be paid in exchange for his appearance in the video, and then it is subject to the conditions that the channel set to attend the ceremony, and used its right to photograph and display it on its own screen.

She added that the plaintiff did not provide any evidence or a categorical evidence that proves that the video shown in his image in the special presentation led to the damage in the manner that he mentioned in the case list, and he does not obtain from that evidence that he had a disorder of adaptation with a depressed mood as described in the medical report, if he does not cut that he was injured as a result of broadcasting the video in the special presentation, as he did not deny receiving the money presented by the defendant, Which is negated by the corner of the error on its part, as the papers are free of evidence of the damaged damage.

The court concluded that the plaintiff was unable to advance the burden of proving his lawsuit, and he is legally charged with proving his entitlement to his requests, so the court requires the refusal of the lawsuit.

• The plaintiff requested 480 thousand dirhams to compensate, and an apology in an official newspaper.