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'Film & Copyright': a practical guide
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Format
| PDF eBook: 55 pages (A4 format) + updating supplement
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Published
| Nov 2003
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Supplement
| Mar 2006 |
ISBN
| 978-1-875833-37-5 (1 875833 37 4)
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| Product ID | B071v06 |
Description
| We look at copyright issues for film makers, including the permissions they must obtain to use other people’s material in their films. We discuss how to decide if you need a copyright clearance, how to identify and find a rights holder, and how to decide what rights must be obtained. We also discuss contracts for acquiring rights. Once the film is made, film makers have their own copyright rights, which provide the legal basis for marketing and distributing the film. We discuss these rights. We also discuss some areas of possible change |
| Contents |
| FAQs covered in this book
| - Can I distort or change the colours and textures of photographs and
artworks for use in my film?
- Can I use a small part of a song if the lyrics are changed and the
character is singing it to himself (badly)?
- Can I use part of a broadcast of the Olympic Games as part of my
film?
- Can I use photos and artworks taken from books and the Internet in my
documentary?
- Can I write a screenplay based on a short story by an English writer
who died 60 years ago?
- Do I need permission to make a film screenplay based on a book which
is based on fact?
- Do I need permission to reproduce a work from someone else's
reproduction of it?
- Do I need permission to use a film of a performance by performers who
were not aware they were being filmed? I would be using this film as
part of a documentary.
- Do I need permission to use include a television showing a film in
the background of my film?
- Do I need permission to use parts of TV advertisements in my film?
- Do I still need copyright permission if I've made changes?
- Do we need permission to include 10-second extracts of footage of
people playing sport or performing a dance in our music video?
- How can I protect the work I have done so far on my film? I want to
present the concepts to producers.
- I am a film student. For my assessment project I wish to reproduce 15
seconds from various films and slow the images down. What copyright
laws do I need to be aware of to make the film?
- I am writing a screenplay based on my play that has been performed.
Do I need permission from the actors and others who workshopped the
play and helped me develop it?
- I have almost completed my screenplay and now I have seen a book that
deals with the same themes in a similar way. Is there a copyright
problem?
- I want to film some photographs taken in the 1930s in my documentary.
Can I reproduce them from a book or do I need the permission of the
museum which holds the original photographs?
- I want to include a public domain musical work in the soundtrack to
my film and have found a recording made in 1958. Can I use it?
- We are making a documentary, and in one scene, we incidentally filmed
a band playing in the background. The tune they are playing is
recognisable-is there any provision for the incidental filming of
music?
- What if the copyright owner refuses permission?
# What should I do if the copyright owner has died or I can't find
them?
- Who owns copyright in a promotional video we made for a client? Who
owns the master tape? Who is responsible for clearing rights for
further use of it?
- Why do I need to get permission from several people just to use a
clip from a video?
- Will I own copyright in a screenplay that I write if it is based on
the story of someone's life?
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