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Take care in Spain about miliary areas.

spartavel

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No real experience with justice but I happen to have investigated the latest spanish laws about drones.

Those military areas treatment are specific to Spain. You can fly your drone but you are not allowed to fly a camera drone !!!
Those military areas are huge and they may be seated on reputated tourist areas, including the beach.
Also take care that your pictures taken in public areas are property (copyright) of the Spanish administration.
So if you take some photos with friends from your Spark in some public place or a beach and post it on youtube or Instagram or even anywhere public, you may have all over the world Spanish government suying you for copyrights. I believe that is not only a drone matter but it seems the Spanish laws take that matter very seriously on drones.
Also take care that Spanish police is used to overinterpret the laws.

Map with rules Spain + Portugal.
IcarusRPA - SKYDRONEX - DRONEX ®
Green rectangles are military zones (nofly for camera drones)
 
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Well that's a new one..Photos you take are owned by the government...please don't tell the USA about this.

Whoops we just did!
 
There is more !
You cannot take a photo of an object that is owned by someone without his permission. And that could be state owned...
For instance not sure you can take a picture of the Paris Triumph Arc and post it (however France may not sue you) but you sure cannot make money out of it without France looking into it.
But you can copy a photo of the object provided it is not copyrighted anymore, even without the owner of the object authorization.
So there is not only copyright violation to take into account. Take care that in France and some EU countries there is no copyright law but an intellectual property law. This is somehow more extensive but leaves the copy right apart. You do not need any commercial formality to establish the protection. Meaning some kind of "copy right" is perpetual in those country, because there is no copyright law but only ownership. In France, for instance, the protection of private matters is complete. You can lie to protect you familly or personal information, on the contrary of in UK and the US. This is also true in justice, and so a family member testimony may not be considered in some cases. This also means that someone can forbid any photography taken from something that is supposed to stay private and his own. For instance an old inhabited mansion that could be seen from an authorized public area can be photographed to some extent for private matters (Take a familly picture with the mansion in the background), but if you take a photo from a neighbouring property from an unexposed area to the public, of the older mansion, the owner rightfully can sue you and completely forbid you even to keep that picture for yourself. Also you cannot take the picture of that mansion and sell it or post it in some public place (youtube, instagram...). Nobody else but the owner could rightfully sue you.
I suppose, in France, in most cases you could copy a photo taken from a public area of a buiding and post it after the intellectual property ownership has passed. Not sure. And maybe even make money out of it. Maybe the owner must have been made in a way knowledgeable of that photo at that time.
 
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