Posted on August 18, 2010 in Music | 1 Comment
Since American Graffiti, the modern film musical has been reinvented as a greatest hits collection of popular or cutting-edge genre music. But if a filmmaker wishes to use recordings of popular songs, she must enter the byzantine world of music licensing.
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Posted on August 18, 2010 in Contracts and Law | No Comments
Want to show the classic Warner Bros. movie in your film? What can you do? Legal Ease has the answer.
…It is possible Warners will license you a few Casablanca clips. It’s also possible I will win the Pulitzer Prize for this blog. Both are equally likely, but my money is on the Pulitzer. [...]
Posted on August 3, 2010 in Contracts and Law, Internet, Legal & Copyright | 1 Comment
Margaret Gould Stewart, YouTube’s head of user experience, talks about how the ubiquitous video site works with copyright holders and creators to foster (at the best of times) a creative ecosystem where everybody wins.
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Posted on August 1, 2010 in Contracts and Law, Filmmaking 360 | 1 Comment
Attack of the Show’s Kevin Pereira talks to Rich Demuro, Editor for TechMeme.com more about the DMCA’s new ruling that allows new protections to video remixing and DVD burning for non commercial work. Find out how these revisions will affect you as a consumer and filmmaker.
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Posted on June 15, 2010 in Internet | No Comments
Margaret Stewart, YouTube’s head of user experience, talks about how the ubiquitous video site works with copyright holders and creators to foster (at the best of times) a creative ecosystem where everybody wins.
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Posted on May 3, 2010 in Contracts and Law, Music | No Comments
Copyright rules define much of the music business, shaping the practices that drive recording and touring deals. Washington understands the importance of the music business, passing and amending copyright laws to benefit and manage the music industry for well over a century.
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Posted on April 14, 2010 in Contracts and Law, Legal & Copyright, Marketing | No Comments
Although film is an expressive art form, it is also an increasingly international and highly commercial business. As a result, filmmakers should be very selective regarding choices to use a third party’s property—copyrighted works, trademarks, readily identified individual names or corporate names—without express permission. Permission is not always difficult to come by. Without the express permission, the errors and omissions insurance may be drafted to exclude any liability for the use of such content, and the lack of coverage may discourage distributors or exhibitors from buying or showing the work.
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Posted on January 17, 2010 in Legal & Copyright | 2 Comments
Mark Galsor and Jesse Saivar tackle the question of what’s legal when dealing with fictional characters from other movies.
…Q: My company is producing a film which has a character that is taken from another very well known film. This new story has absolutely nothing to do with the previously established film, is not [...]
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Posted on September 23, 2009 in Contracts and Law | 2 Comments
Do you need permission to use every single trademarked item in your shot? Michael C. Donaldson may have an answer that will surprise you.
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Posted on January 9, 2009 in Filmmaking 360 | No Comments
The sixth lecture in Evan Korth’s NYU Computers and Society course featured Professor Lawrence Lessig of Stanford University. His topic, the subject of his recent book, was “Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy.”
The content industry has convinced industry in general that extremism in copyright regulation is good for business and economic [...]
Posted on September 8, 2008 in Music | No Comments
By Jon M. Garon
Gallagher, Callahan & Gartrell, PC
This is part of a series of book excerpts from Independent Filmmaking, The Law & Business Guide for Financing, Shooting & Distributing Independent & Digital Films designed as an introduction to the many legal issues involved in the filmmaking process.
Music & Sound
For most modern films, music has [...]
Posted on August 24, 2008 in Contracts and Law | 1 Comment
From: Center for Social Media
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INTRODUCTION
WHAT THIS IS
This document is a code of best practices that helps creators, online providers, copyright holders, and others interested in the making of online video interpret the copyright doctrine of fair use. Fair use is the right to use copyrighted material without permission or payment under [...]
Posted on August 7, 2008 in Contracts and Law | 1 Comment
By Jon M. Garon
Gallagher, Callahan & Gartrell, PC
This is part of a series of book excerpts from Independent Filmmaking, The Law & Business Guide for Financing, Shooting & Distributing Independent & Digital Films designed as an introduction to the many legal issues involved in the filmmaking process.
To obtain the right to make a movie [...]
Posted on August 5, 2008 in Music | No Comments
By Jon M. Garon
Gallagher, Callahan & Gartrell, PC
This is part of a series of book excerpts from Independent Filmmaking, The Law & Business Guide for Financing, Shooting & Distributing Independent & Digital Films designed as an introduction to the many legal issues involved in the filmmaking process.
The industry tradition has been to create a series [...]
Posted on July 22, 2008 in Music | No Comments
Hopeful these new rules will help filmmakers cut though the “red tape” nightmare of licensing music for every country in the EU for films distributed in Europe.
Suggested by member: Dark Water
…Music download stores like Apple’s iTunes could soon be able to operate one shop for the whole of Europe, under new rules brought in by [...]
