so easy to download off the internet and whereas if you buy a pirate dvd, you probably are aware that you are doing just that (and that you shouldn’t) but with the internet you don’t feel the same somehow and you do need to be reminded that in fact piracy (even unauthorised sharing over the internet) is in fact stealing.
Using archive film clips is also something that has to be done through the right channels though often much of this is available freely or cheaply, but it is important you go through the right channels and can show that you did. Institutes like the BFI and Pa they have many archives available and many institutes have archives that you can use under a special student/education licence organised either by the student or more usually by the educational facility ( uni/college/school)
Any music you use as a student needs to have the owner of its copyright traced and to have permission, and this can be very difficult, but as this can add quite a bit of time to a project, fore-warned at least should be a bit fore-armed!
Tuesday 20 May 2014
Understanding copyright
Copyright is one of the issues that affects most films and certainly all of the mainstream releases.
It also affects me as a student, I need to know about it for the future but I also need to know about it when I am doing research or sharing clips on my blog for example.
There are many kinds of copyright.
In film the copyrights usually last for 70 years after the last surviving person dies out of the director, anyone who composed music specially for the film and the authors of the screenplay and script.
Of course there is more to it than that, and within any film or tv series there are copyrights associated with product placement and for example clips form actual tv footage or news.
Also in the media there has been a lot of coverage of pirating, this is a problem as it infringes copyright laws which means that the copyright owners don’t get the revenue for the hard work they did in getting the film (or whatever) together. There are many strong adverts in cinemas about this and it has hit the news as it is 
so easy to download off the internet and whereas if you buy a pirate dvd, you probably are aware that you are doing just that (and that you shouldn’t) but with the internet you don’t feel the same somehow and you do need to be reminded that in fact piracy (even unauthorised sharing over the internet) is in fact stealing.
Using archive film clips is also something that has to be done through the right channels though often much of this is available freely or cheaply, but it is important you go through the right channels and can show that you did. Institutes like the BFI and Pa they have many archives available and many institutes have archives that you can use under a special student/education licence organised either by the student or more usually by the educational facility ( uni/college/school)
Any music you use as a student needs to have the owner of its copyright traced and to have permission, and this can be very difficult, but as this can add quite a bit of time to a project, fore-warned at least should be a bit fore-armed!
so easy to download off the internet and whereas if you buy a pirate dvd, you probably are aware that you are doing just that (and that you shouldn’t) but with the internet you don’t feel the same somehow and you do need to be reminded that in fact piracy (even unauthorised sharing over the internet) is in fact stealing.
Using archive film clips is also something that has to be done through the right channels though often much of this is available freely or cheaply, but it is important you go through the right channels and can show that you did. Institutes like the BFI and Pa they have many archives available and many institutes have archives that you can use under a special student/education licence organised either by the student or more usually by the educational facility ( uni/college/school)
Any music you use as a student needs to have the owner of its copyright traced and to have permission, and this can be very difficult, but as this can add quite a bit of time to a project, fore-warned at least should be a bit fore-armed!
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