Re: Video clips from TV News

On Aug 29, 1998, Chris Hamel-Smith <chamel[_at_]infochan.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 26 Aug 1998, Madeleine Fix <fix.3[_at_]osu.edu> wrote:
> >
> > I think that anything you use from network television technically
> > resides under the copyright of that particular network.
> [SNIP]
> > Finding out which particular clips (esp. the ones which are repeated
> > on television by all the networks) are in the public domain would be
> > your first step, I believe.
> >
> > What are you making?
>
> The clips I'm looking to use are the very frequently repeated ones of
> Bill Clinton, e.g. wagging the finger, confessing, hugging Monica and
> the Monica with dress. The idea is to use them briefly as inserts in a
> video based on the live performance of a stand-up comic doing a humerous
> calypso song, called "Billy the King". BTW if you'd like to see the
> lyrics let me know.

What if very small clips were used in a collage and those clips were manipulated?

Lesley Harris
<lesley[_at_]copyrightlaws.com> Received on Sat Aug 29 1998 - 14:05:52 GMT