around the 6/9/05 Randolfe Wicker mentioned about Re: [videoblogging] Various types of permission forms that: >In the documentary, the filmmaker uses tapes of conversations >regarding negotiation and a series of photos he snapped on outings >with the fellow who would never sign a release. This was good >enough to get accepted and played in film festivals. However, I am >assured by people working on a documentary on a related theme that >"Based on a True Story" would never pass muster for commercial >broadcast by a cable or television station or even for general >theatrical release.
releases are quite a separate legal issue from copyright which is what I was referring to. Use CD x. it has already been published, it already has copyright. That is quite different from whether person X has signed a release to be filmed, or not (this is not big news in documentary, did Bert Reynolds have to sign a release for Sherman's March, I doubt it - here it crosses strongly into aspects of journalistic practice). Also it makes no difference if you think your blog is 'commercial' or not. "commercial' is not a criteria applied in copyright protection, it is about authorised republication. The law doesn't care if you did it for free, or not. *You* cannot decide to give away someone else's 'property' for free, that's what copyright says. -- cheers Adrian Miles hypertext.RMIT <URL:http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/vlog> ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back! http://us.click.yahoo.com/T8sf5C/tzNLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
