Opening product

[Covenante]

Hi!

I was considering doing videos about me opening electronic product and learning how it works for fun (i'm studying electronic and robotic). I just had one question. What about legal issue? Do I need to hide the company name before opening a product? After all, the video will say how to product works so... Anyway, I am in Canada if that can help.

Thank you!

[Falcon69]

I wouldn't think so. If anything, if the product works as intended from the manufacture, then a video (YouTube or other) actually is free advertisement for the manufacturer. However, if you were saying things that were untrue or lack of facts to back it up about the product or manufacturer, then you could have some legal problems for slandering their name.

[Covenante]

Seems right. What I would do is Reverse engineering. Because sometime company doesn't want other companies to know how they did it....

[tautech]

Seems right. What I would do is Reverse engineering. Because sometime company doesn't want other companies to know how they did it....

Many companies buy their competitors products and reverse engineer them anyway.
This normally doesn't find its way to the public domain however.

[Richard Crowley]

Seems right. What I would do is Reverse engineering. Because sometime company doesn't want other companies to know how they did it....

If Company B wanted to know how a product from Company A was made, you can be sure that they have already studied and reverse-engineered it.
They aren't waiting for an amateur tear-down video on YouTube (no offense).

OTOH, if you don't know something, say so instead of making up something or just rambling on about it.
There is a remarkable amount of content on YouTube that is pure rubbish and not worth the time to find out how bad it is.