I found it interesting just like the video's I posted the other day with Luke's interviews with Colin Guinn. The rules are so grey that even if you want to follow them all you dont know exactly what the enforceable laws are. The commercial use I find rather silly and old fashioned as the FAA or CASA (in australia) are meant to be worried about safety not making money or stopping others from doing so. If something is ok without being paid I dont see how it is all of a sudden an issue when someone would pay for the service.
I think people should be held responsible for their own actions there are already laws regarding privacy, endangering others and or interfering with other people in a negative way in general. Sure if someone does something stupid then they should be punished under any current laws regarding privacy, or damages if they occur.
The one thing that I find the strangest is commercial use and YT videos, having a partner channel and getting some ad revenue would term the aerial video of a quad as commercial use. But if the user is not allowed to profit from such videos then how could youtube justify putting their own ads on to such videos. If the original creator of the video cant get a share of the ad revenue then should this not apply to everyone? Sould such videos be not permitted to have any google adsense ads on them at all as this is all commercial use is it not from anyone making money of such alleged illegal content. How can DJI run a video contest or anyone else with a prize up for grabs and then the terms indicate that they can use the video commercially in any way they choose. Its all just too murky and what we really need is clarification of the laws as they are enforceable, the last thing we need is more registration and bribes I mean licenses to pay.
I have been offered some commercial work with my phantom but turned it all down as the laws are too much of a grey area and constantly changing. From what I understand in Australia it costs around $10k+ to be permitted to do aerial RC video commercially. I will do a few projects for free just to practice my skills and get permission to fly in a few places in trade for some videos I can share. This surely is not commercial use as I see it but who knows how some may interpret this type of use, I think its much better to fly in places with full permission and if this means I need to share some video footage then I see no issue with this approach. The trade for content is purely for my use as a hobby and no financial gain is given to me by doing so therefore it cant be seen as commercial use.