11 Copyright Law, Third-party and Archive Material
So let’s consider your research for your film. Perhaps you need footage to illustrate a point and you don’t have anything relevant in your own footage or what is commonly referred to as rushes. Archive footage might work, or a news article, or maybe it’s a police surveillance camera. These are all called third-party materials, and there are many categories. It’s called third-party because you literally don’t own the material. You can’t just take anyone’s artwork whether writing, photographs or clips from a TV show to illustrate your point, without first considering the ownership of that work.
Whenever you produce any work, as soon as it is made or created, it is copyrighted. This wasn’t always ...
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