Indie Filmmaker’s journal: Part Two.
“I look like a raccoon.” He said. “A bald raccoon. And the music is not me. Not me, doesn’t fit with my work. Change it.” He was not happy with our little masterpiece.
“Music, good music, free music is kind of hard to find.” I said. “We can leave the music out, no problem. But the raccoon thing is about the lighting at your house. Not much we can do about that, now.” I didn’t tell him it was also a function of our ignorance of proper lighting. I felt bad. He was a professional artist, we were amateur videographers.
We were learning, still finding out about how to do interviews of artists for informational features for our local community access cable TV station, which covers a small rural county. I see it as a kind of journalism. The Stanford University website mentions that many journalists do not obtain a signed interview release on the assumption that giving the interview was consent. The US Copyright Office and the University of California site are helpful in understanding permissions and releases. Releases can help avoid legal actions for libel, invasion of privacy or copyright infringement (interviewee’s words can be copyrightable).
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Showing posts with label obtaining copyright permissions. Show all posts
7/29/2012
Obtaining Copyright Permissions
Indie Filmmaker's Journal: Part One
“If someone uses my images without my permission, I will own their home.” She said it with a smile in a small voice, soft and smooth. It was in her eyes and her smile, she meant what she said. She told us a story of finding one of her works being sold on the internet without her permission. She told us about registering copyright. We were interviewing her for an artist profile of her to put on our local public access cable TV station. We knew we had her permission, we were doing a 30 minute video profile of her as a completely non-commercial gift to her and to our community. Video is our hobby, we want to increase the cultural density of our community, we did not want to become homeless from our good intentions.
In almost all cases creating videos is a composite craft. In making documentaries, in making fictional movies and in filming performances using the work, the property, of others is necessary. There is nothing like the desire to follow the rules and also a good dose of fear of losing your home to stimulate the search for knowledge.
“If someone uses my images without my permission, I will own their home.” She said it with a smile in a small voice, soft and smooth. It was in her eyes and her smile, she meant what she said. She told us a story of finding one of her works being sold on the internet without her permission. She told us about registering copyright. We were interviewing her for an artist profile of her to put on our local public access cable TV station. We knew we had her permission, we were doing a 30 minute video profile of her as a completely non-commercial gift to her and to our community. Video is our hobby, we want to increase the cultural density of our community, we did not want to become homeless from our good intentions.
In almost all cases creating videos is a composite craft. In making documentaries, in making fictional movies and in filming performances using the work, the property, of others is necessary. There is nothing like the desire to follow the rules and also a good dose of fear of losing your home to stimulate the search for knowledge.
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