On Thu, 25 Mar 2004 11:10:20 -0500, David wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Andy Ross wrote: > > > Folks, please stop the amateur lawyering. If someone wants to > > get a real attorney's opinion, that's fine. But this is just > > making us look dumb. > > > > Fair use is fair use. You can buy books full of photographs that > > don't have explicit licenses from every holder of every copyright > > in the image. What we are doing is no different. > > Film production courses teach low-budget, amateur filmmakers to get > releases for every recognizable person, location, and trademark in a > film. I was watching the extra features on the LOST IN TRANSLATION > DVD -- a major release and best-screenplay Oscar winner -- and Sofia > Coppola and her crew talk about how they'd sneak their camera > equipment into the Tokyo subway or out onto the sidewalk because they > didn't have shooting permits. At one point, the entire crew went up > to a second-floor Starbucks and ordered coffee, non-chalantly putting > a camera on a tripod against the window to get shots of pedestrians > crossing the intersection below. No releases from the city or the > hundreds of (clearly visible) pedestrians, obviously. > > I guess that Sofia Coppola forgot to take a film production course. ..it could also be she knew they would'nt get an advance permission and instead opted to forgiven afterwards. Our real problem is democracy and fair use is losing ground. And that discussion should go to http://Groklaw.net/ , every new release of FG helps keep that ground. -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-) ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
