“What would be the lawful ‘commercial’ purpose?”
News reporting comes to mind.
This morning I watched cell-phone “Periscope” coverage of the armed Leftists marching in AZ. That’s exactly the kind of group I’d want to “surveil” from a safe distance using a drone, and would be happy to sell that video. That group made it very clear to the right-there reporter that he did NOT have express permission of anyone being recorded.
Interesting that the summarized law might practically _require_ one to sell the images/video (thus invoking “lawful commercial purpose”), to use the drone to watch such a group; I don’t see a “personal use” exemption in that summary.
•Intentionally take photographs or other types of images or publish such photographs or images of another person without the other person’s permission where the person being photographed or whose image is being captured has a reasonable expectation of privacy.
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Seems to me that the AZ group has no expectation of privacy.