[cc-community] Using CC Licensed Images in a Commercial Film

Gavin Baker gavin at gavinbaker.com
Thu Jan 17 19:35:41 EST 2008


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Long story short, you should be OK if the photos:

1. Are using the Attribution license (can't use anything with
NonCommercial, and ShareAlike might not work either)

2. Are actually the work of the person who posted them on Flickr (and
not the fraudulently- or accidentally-posted work of someone else, who
didn't authorize the license)

3. Don't contain people, or else you could run afoul of personality
rights (privacy, publicity)

#2 should be covered by your media insurance if you have it (or if your
distributor does). You could try to cover yourself a little by
contacting the Flickr users and asking them to confirm their authorship
(e.g. "I'd like to use your photo in my film under the terms of the CC
license you used, and I want to make sure I credit you properly -- can
you fill out this form to confirm you're the author, and the name I
should attribute you under?")

#3 is probably the trickiest, if people are in the photos, and the only
recommendation I can make is to ask a lawyer.

(CMA: IANAL, TINLA)

Martin Scanlan wrote:
| I'm an independent filmmaker, currently in the planning stages of a
| Microbudget feature project. Although a fiction film, the script
| contains many montage sequences which I want to have the feel of a
| science documentary. My plan is to create these sequences using animated
| stills in the style of the documentary 'The Kid Stays in The Picture'.
| What I was planning to do was to use stills from Flickr which have been
| licensed under a Creative Commons attribution licence and animate, cut
| and composite them together. It is my understanding that as long as I
| was to credit the image creators, then I would be fine doing this under
| the Creative Commons licence. My project is intended for full commercial
| exploitation and I would need to be certain that I wasn't going to run
| into trouble further down the road. Any advice?
|
| Thanks
|
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| Martin Scanlan +44(0)7970 816248 martin at martinscanlan.com
www.martinscanlan.com
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