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Whut?
Yeah that just isn't true. If this was true I could charge every business that has ever stored videos of me.
Make $500k/year just by walking in and out of a Walmart all day!
It's true, but in terms of publicity, not mere image capture.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personality_rights
https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/publicity
Its the Right to Publicity. Walmart can record security footage but they shouldn't be able to use a recording for commercial purposes unless you explicitly give them permission to use it.
Yeah, they sell those security videos and are using them for AI training, etc.
If they were publicising those videos that sounds illegal to me. If I printed off a copyrighted book for my own personal use, that would be legal. If I started distributing my own reprints of a copyrighted book without permission, the copyright holder could go after me. The businesses can hold copyrighted material without distributing them and not be in breach of the law.
Many of those companies employ use third parties to store those videos and use them to train AI in products that they sell.
The Right to Publicity: https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/publicity