Posted by Richard Crowley on 11/26/05 04:32

<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".

[Back to original message]