it doesn't matter
if you are making money or doing this for charity. you must secure
clearance.
This just isn't true. There are many times when you can use material that is owned by others without their permission. I can do a story about Home Depot, for example, use their logo, film in front of their store and talk all about them without their permission. Maybe I'm uncovering bad practices, and of course they might want to stop me, but they can't. I can create a piece about Bush, using footage of Bush, without his permission -- I can even take that footage from CNN, right off the tv, without CNN's permission (I did this... http://www.bushforpeace.us and distributed the piece all over).
It's called FAIR USE, and there are many many times people can use footage created or owned by others, images and trademarks and public appearances and such.
SO PLEASE -- let's not censor ourselves, or scare each other into not doing some great work out of a misunderstanding of what we can and can't do legally.
We all have a lot more in the way of rights than people are exercising in this lawsuit-fearful / pro-corporate-rights and anti-people-(especially-artist)-rights climate!
For more, read / watch about fair use:
http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/fairuse.htm
http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/rock/pressconf.htm
http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/rock/backgrounddocs/bestpractices.pdf
FAIR USE IS VERY VERY IMPORTANT!!!
- Jen
jenSimmons
http://www.emergingawareness.org
http://www.inclinationsthemovie.com
http://www.jensimmons.com
