Why wouldn't live streaming or recording from a public place be legal?
Any area which is public, we should be able to record what goes on there.
In any public area that is recorded by a camera that is owned by the government, the tapes should be public record and accessible.
The current government climate has it backwards. We are to record and watch THEIR actions with transparency and the citizens have a right to privacy. NOT the other way around.
If this was followed we might be able to see the missle, er, "plane" that hit the Pentagon on 9/11.
Why have they not been able to produce video of a plane hitting one of the most guarded buildings in one of the most recorded airspaces on the planet?

Shouldn't one of the choices be:

No, for legal reasons

...because that is the one that I would select.

There are a lot of things that TMZ and other pap agencies are doing that should be illegal. The airport is the least of them.

It's annoying for 'regular' passengers. TMZ is really stupid for planting their video camera there.
Smart celebs get limo'ed to the 'private' terminal on the SW side of the airport it's unmarked and behind a security deviced gate they get whisked thru security and onto a private or fractional ownership jet the same setup is at Van Nuys Airport and I'm sure there are other places like this at other major airports-celebs would never be hassled unless of course the WANTED to be. And as it said 'no celebs spotted'. A relative of mine used to work for limo co. and told me this-it's a private terminal for heads of state, multimillionaires, celebs etc. Last time I was at LAX Paul Sorvino was using a phone booth unhassled by paparazzi but that was a long time ago before Mira became a celeb.

Yawn. The local media outlets routinely do their "Look how busy the airport is at Thanksgiving/Christmas/day after New Year" bits at LAX, standing on the sidewalk getting in the way. I am sure LAX has some mechanism for making sure it's the media and not people scouting for terror attacks. The big van with the antenna that sticks up in the air is probably a bit of a clue.

i think the bigger question would be what kind of person is so celebrity obsessed that they would actually care to see marion cotillard or any other person on the planet get out of a car at the airport. i'm certainly not above enjoying a little celebrity dirt from time to time but this seems really pathetic to me.

oh, and were is security??? really makes you re-consider LAX as an option, doesn't it?

How is this different from any other live shot a local TV station does whenever there are massive flight delays, or when passengers are snowed in?

Just because it's TMZ doesn't mean they aren't entitled to the same liberties -- and restrictions -- that local stations enjoy.

As long as they don't expose any security precautions (focus on cameras, reveal any plain-clothes officers) what's the problem??

TMZ and the people who pay attention to them are very lonely people. Very lonely. Oh, and dangerous in so many ways, too.

If you are validating what TMZ is doing, even under the guise of questioning its legality (and for the record, no, I don't think it should be legal as it is an airport firstly and secondly, harboring these sleazebags under the cloak of the First Amendment requires they be part of the media protected and they are not; they are vile scum and all that is wrong with the media at present.)

HuffPo continuously give credence to Harvey Levin and TMZ and their antics; by not criticizing or, better yet, refusing to give it any legitimacy, you are condoning, endorsing, advertising and promoting it.