Archival Storytelling: A Filmmaker's Guide to Finding, Using, and Licensing Third-Party Visuals and Music

by Curran Bernard; Sheila

• ISBN13: 9780240809731
• ISBN10: 0240809734
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2008-09-22
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Archival Storytelling is an essential, pragmatic guide to one of the most challenging issues facing filmmakers today: the use of images and music that belong to someone else. Where do producers go for affordable stills and footage? How do filmmakers evaluate the historical value of archival materials? What do vérité producers need to know when documenting a world filled with rights-protected images and sounds? How do filmmakers protect their own creative efforts from infringement? Filled with advice and insight from filmmakers, archivists, film researchers, music supervisors, intellectual property experts, insurance executives and others, Archival Storytelling defines key terms-copyright, fair use, public domain, orphan works and more-and challenges filmmakers to become not only archival users but also archival and copyright activists, ensuring their ongoing ability as creators to draw on the cultural materials that surround them. Features conversations with industry leaders including Patricia Aufderheide, Hubert Best, Peter Jaszi, Jan Krawitz, Lawrence Lessig, Stanley Nelson, Rick Prelinger, Geoffrey C. Ward and many others. * Nearly all filmmakers, at some point in their careers, will want to use third-party materials, or will be asked to license their own work to someone else. This book will show you how to do it (and stay on-time and within budget) * This book, by clarifying and defining such terms as fair use, copyright, intellectual property, and Creative Commons, can better prepare media makers to not only protect their own creative rights but to understand and respect those of others. * Additional resources are available on the authors' website: http://www.archivalstorytelling.com

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Finding It
What are archival materials?	p. 15
Finding what you need	p. 25
Should you hire a professional?	p. 51
A global perspective: Conversations with image researchers	p. 61
Using It
Practical considerations	p. 85
Ordering what you need	p. 97
Creative considerations	p. 117
An ongoing process: A conversation with Geoffrey C. Ward	p. 131
Ethical considerations: A roundtable discussion	p. 141
Licensing It
Introduction to rights and licenses	p. 159
The public domain	p. 189
Getting things right: A conversation with Lawrence Lessig	p. 201
Fair use	p. 211
Fair dealing, moral rights, and more: A conversation with Hubert Best	p. 229
Licensing visuals	p. 241
Licensing music	p. 265
Legal considerations: A roundtable discussion	p. 283
Afterword	p. 295
Additional Material
Sources and notes	p. 303
Books	p. 309
Films	p. 311
About the authors	p. 317
Index	p. 319
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