Courts on TV: The Legal Issues Surrounding Recording Courtrooms

The public are always interested in following up courtroom procedures, particularly if it is about celebrities and public figures. Media organizations have developed numerous ways to send their camera crewmembers inside courts because they know the value of more eyeballs in the continuation of their life. However, how ethical, or legal, is to record court procedures and even broadcast them? This article tries to investigate legal issues and dilemmas regarding recording courtrooms. We will explore the history of the presence of TV cameras in the American courts to see how not the law itself but the relentless zeal of the public to know what happen inside the trials that has always determined the presence of cameras inside the courts.