🚀 go-pugleaf

On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Sam Barricklow wrote:

> But the real danger comes when production companies (or news organizations)
> include your work in "their library" for future use.  Your name may or may not
> be connected with your work (it is hard to believe that a national network
 would
> be sloppy enough to allow this to happen "accidentally").  A producer may walk
> into the library needing tornado, lightning or other storm footage for his
> upcoming production and find your spectacular footage, then use it and not
> inquire as to who the copyright owner is and since I assume it is not labeled,
> the producer may assume your video is in the "public domain" and not
 copyrighted
> material.

  Its worse than that.  Nowadays, you don't have to go longer than about 24
hours before you come upon a video a station "borrowed" from someplace else,
and notice that they "blurred out" the other station's logo from the corner.
They don't even CARE anymore whether you can see that they did that or not.

Todd

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