When filming in a city can you get in trouble for getin shoots of strangers walk!
Question: The general rule is that as long as the people aren't recognizable and their privacy hasn't been compromised then you're okay. That's how you can show an actor walking through Times Square along with a thousand other people without having every single one of them sign a release allowing you to photograph them. However, since that doesn't keep a person whose face is clearly visible from suing you for damages, a smart producer will do one of two things. If possible, anyone in a scene - even extras - will have signed something saying you have permission to show them. If it's not possible, then you'll put up clearly visible signs that say "Filming in progress. Entry to this area gives your implicit consent to have yourself photographed and shown in a motion picture."
Answers: The general rule is that as long as the people aren't recognizable and their privacy hasn't been compromised then you're okay. That's how you can show an actor walking through Times Square along with a thousand other people without having every single one of them sign a release allowing you to photograph them. However, since that doesn't keep a person whose face is clearly visible from suing you for damages, a smart producer will do one of two things. If possible, anyone in a scene - even extras - will have signed something saying you have permission to show them. If it's not possible, then you'll put up clearly visible signs that say "Filming in progress. Entry to this area gives your implicit consent to have yourself photographed and shown in a motion picture."
I believe you have to ask them, before displaying the film publicly.
It depends on what their doing. If their doing something personel and private, yes. If their just walking by, no. If they are commiting a crime, turn that scene in to the cops. There are infinite possibilitys of what you can capture in a movie.
Yes.
You should get a release from each of them or expect to have to blur out anyone of them should they sue you for likeness rights. Think Tiger Woods and suing a man for drawing him on the golf course times hundreds of passersby.