Posted by doc on 12/20/05 22:54

cool colorado. keep it up. i love it!

drd

"Craig Scheiner" <cps@cpsvideo.net> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 20:32:51 -0800, Richard Crowley wrote
> (in article <dm8ohn$7ni$1@news01.intel.com>):
>
>>
>> <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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