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Posted by Craig Scheiner on 12/20/05 08:53
On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 20:32:51 -0800, Richard Crowley wrote
(in article <dm8ohn$7ni$1@news01.intel.com>):
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> <fjr.colorado@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1132968011.734879.182860@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>> Hello,
>>
>> Well, I hope this is the right place to post this.
>>
>> I like to make music videos to my favorite music at home on my Mac
>> (FCP). This is a hobby of mine, in order to terrorize & haunt friends
>> & family members. I just love to cut film. So these little flicks
>> of course, use my favorite music and whatever clips of whatever
>> material (mine or otherwise) I can get my hands.
>>
>> My question is within the concerns of copyright and such. I'm just a
>> hobbiest and can't afford the big $ to buy all my stock footage, but I
>> yearn, am desperate for images to cut. I have been looking around and
>> came across some govt. web sites that offer classic old footage free
>> for downoad, but the resolution is usually too small, of course. I
>> keep hearing of "royalty free public domain" stock such as here:
>> http://www.buyoutfootage.com/pages/pd.html
>>
>> That place has tons of the type of footage I'm looking for. But FCP
>> alone broke me finacially, let alone paying hundreds and thousands for
>> small bits of footage.
>>
>> So, if it is "free public domain" - can I do the legwork myself and get
>> it via other avenues?
>
> Stuff from the government is "free" in the sense that you have
> paid for it already via your federal and state taxes. There is
> no copyright protection on government produced footage,
> by definition, so it is "royalty free".
>
>
Now, that can be pretty tricky. There are many gov videos that were produced
by indie producers that used copyrighted elements, like stock footage,
footage owned by others and licensed for that production only, music,
graphics, identifiable people who signed releases for that production only,
and ...you get the idea. Just because you paid for it with your taxes does
not mean you can edit out and use portions of it in your own production. It
does mean you can show the film or video unaltered in public performances
without paying a fee or getting permission from the actors or people in the
video. You can probably make copies and sell them without a problem. Lots of
folks made a few dollars duplicating "Reefer Madness" over the years.
Best regards,
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