Dear Francisco, Jim, Gene, David, Ted and Dan. Thank you all for your insights and advice. I really appreciate your taking the time to respond to my query. Frameworks is such a great resource!
Best wishes, CC On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 1:04 PM, Francisco Torres <[email protected]>wrote: > If you modify it ''substantially'' it becomes a different text. Think > William Burroughs... > > > On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 4:48 PM, Caryn Cline <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Dear Frameworkers, >> >> >> >> I'm writing to ask your advice. I'm working on a short handmade, >> experimental film that takes as its "script" a slightly modified version of >> an essay I found in the *New York Times*, which I plan to use as a >> voiceover narration on the soundtrack. I wrote to the author to ask his >> permission to use it, which he gladly gave with this caveat: everything he >> writes for the paper is owned by them. He gave me the name of someone to >> contact at the paper, who sent me to the paper's licensing people. I >> decided to follow that lead, to see where it went. [I have not had good >> luck with trying to get permission for a reasonable fee before, but I >> decided to try, as an experience.] >> >> >> >> Well, needless to say the people who license for the *Times* want me to >> pay them what I regard as way too much money for the use of the essay--$800 >> for rights for festivals, galleries, streaming, broadcast, etc.--for the >> life of the title. As you know, it is difficult to communicate to people >> in these positions that there is absolutely no commercial value in the >> film. The money is about 1/3 of my overall budget. Some of my handmade >> film buddies advised me to forget about the permission and just use it >> anyway, but I feel funny about doing that now, and as one friend who works >> in the business cautioned: my project and I are on their radar now. Should >> I try to talk them down? (They originally asked for $1300, so this is a >> considerable reduction from outrageously expensive to merely quite >> expensive.) Should I claim "fair use," and use the text anyway? What are >> the chances that they would come after me? I'd appreciate any advice or >> hearing about your own experiences with this. Many thanks. >> >> >> CC >> >> -- >> Caryn Cline >> co-producer, *Acts of Witness* >> www.actsofwitness.com >> vimeo.com/carynyc >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> FrameWorks mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > FrameWorks mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks > > -- Caryn Cline co-producer, *Acts of Witness* www.actsofwitness.com vimeo.com/carynyc
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