Yes, you do.
Film making is a commercial enterprise and whether you’re filming a Will Smith movie or iPhone based porn you need a permit to use public areas.
Also, this was hardcore porn filmed in a public library and outside a school.
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That sounds a marvellously dirty word for something so innocent - well done you 
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Well of course. You might frighten the horses.
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When exposing oneself (as noted in the story), the answer tends to be yes. When filming for profit, everybody should be signing a release. Consent isn’t just for those actively engaging in the act.
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Inside the building, you might frighten the library cat.
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Library cats have seen it all.
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Most places you need a permit for a commercial production on public property. Usually need permission of the owners on private. Many places give blanket permission for news and students. Couple places (Philly is one IIRC) give blanket, permitless access for shooting on public property. Though you’ll need permits for anything large enough scale to get in the way. Structures, shutting down roads etc.
But then fucking in public is a whole nother issue, I don’t think you can get a permit for that. Especially outside a school.
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Context is important!
Reporter: I’m doing research!!!
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Calling attention to this early moment in the history of the printed codex, historians refer to books printed between 1455 and 1501 as incunabula , the Latin word for “in the cradle.”*
INCUNABULA, the art & History of Printing in Western Europe c. 1450-1500
so the use of this term to refer to a painting confuses me–unless the character is simply misusing the terminology to sound more erudite.
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Ugh, I can’t imagine all the permitting headaches google had with Street View. /s
(Makes sense that you would need a permit for anything that causes a disruption, e.g., a Will Smith movie, or public sex. But using an iphone to film, say, (a fully clothed) someone walking past a school seems like it shouldn’t, even if the footage winds up in a blockbuster film. )
Possibly our ancient ancestors had libraries?
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Well yeah exactly; that’s why most landowners (Public and Private) tend not to get upset if you want to film your little TikTok video in the street. Once you start parking StarVans and Catering trucks the permit cops show up.
But none of this has anything to do with “legitimate film making.” This is two people, fucking in public while one of them holds a camera, no one is permitting that.
And yes, Google has tons of headaches with people and companies complaining about how they are presented on street view. //s
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I’ve seen things at the Great Library of Alexandria that you people wouldn’t believe.The soft, alabaster shoulders of Orion’s acolytes. I watched the scholars, oiled and glittering, get Ptolemaic in their dark reading nooks. All those moments, ash now 'neath the bathouses of Alexandria. Time… to die.
~ Eratosthenes of Cyrene
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Video or it didn’t happen. Oh wait, I guess there is video. 
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The term has also come to be used for other early works besides printed books, pamphlets, etc.
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A library seems like the ideal place to shoot a book hockey video.
I’ll bet they will
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