Re: Video clips from TV News

Madeleine Fix <fix.3[_at_]osu.edu> wrote:
>
> On 8/25/98, Chris Hamel-Smith <chamel[_at_]wow.net> wrote:
> >
> > Anybody willing to venture some thoughts or guidance on the use of
> > short clips from news coverage (say some of the key shots of Bill,
> > Monica, etc.) incorporated into music video?
>
> I think that anything you use from network television technically
> resides under the copyright of that particular network. You could
> contact Ocean State Lawyers for the Arts, I think their on the internet
> at http://www.osla.org/ or http://www.osla.com/. They're a nonprofit
> law group in Providence (?) Rhode Island where the Rhode Island School
> of Design is located.

While I may agree as to news coverage, I don't think that you can say that everything shown on TV belongs to them. That they put a copyright notice on their news shows has little if any bearing. You have to look at who actually shot the film. And I agree that that is more often than not the network. However, the copyright may actually belong to for example the local affiliate, a national news network, etc.

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