David Megginson said: > > 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. >
These aren't exactly amateurs. Just the number of locations in that film probably made it impractical to anything other than what they did. If there's a threat it is one the derives from Microsoft doing another deal with Cessna like they did to TRI (the Fly! producers). But that isn't a problem until it happens. Are there any resources for open source projects on questions like this at FSF or elsewhere? I mean, I could imagine that we might have to do something like cite American trademarks in docs (e.g. United Airlines, Cessna, etc). Best, Jim _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
