How many freely usable pictures of Ayn Rand or Milton Friedman do you think you can find?
** shrugs shoulders** 1436?
To paraphrase Marc Faber: We're all doomed, but that doesn't mean that we can't make money in the process. Rabbi Lapin: "Let's make bricks!" Stephan Kinsella: "Say you and I both want to make a German chocolate cake."
By freely usable I mean creative commons or something similar. Ones that you can use in your own video without violating copyright.
Like the pictures posted on Wikimedia Commons?
Metus: Like the pictures posted on Wikimedia Commons? Wikimedia Commons provides exactly 1 picture and it's of Milton Friedman: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Friedman_dinner.jpg You can barely recognize him on it. Hi, I'm an editor with Wikipedia. We have a good article on Milton Friedman, but no free image. I was wondering if we could use your image, http://www.flickr.com/photos/littlebebe/28883327/, and crop it to only show Mr. Friedman. We can only use "free" images, which means if you agree, it has to be usable and editable by anyone, even for commercial purposes. But if we can use the image, we'll certainly link back to your Flickr page. What do you say? Do you agree? She responded: Yes , you can use my picture, but I prefer my picture link from flickr link to it. VforVoluntary.com | Youtube.com/Nielsio | Reddit.com/r/austrian_economics | Post Points: 20
Maybe contact the guy who made this press release and ask about the license on the photo ?
http://www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/06/061116.friedman.shtml
Could you take screenshots from the better youtube vids as another option?
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nirgrahamUK: Maybe contact the guy who made this press release and ask about the license on the photo ? http://www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/06/061116.friedman.shtml
Tried to email them using their web-form about that image's license status -> got an error from their server.
Could you take screenshots from the better youtube vids as another option? All the free to choose, etc, materials are copyrighted. Even the Open Mind interviews from 1975 and 1977, which are freely distributed ( http://www.thirteen.org/openmind/, http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=milton%20friedman%20AND%20collection%3Anewsandpublicaffairs ), are still copyrighted and not free to copy/modify. VforVoluntary.com | Youtube.com/Nielsio | Reddit.com/r/austrian_economics | Post Points: 20
ha, technology fail.
Well, they have regular email addresses: http://news.uchicago.edu/contact
About the youtube video's, the ones of which there are multiple copies with tens of thousands of views each, that have been hosted for a few years would probably render them 'fair use' regardless of the 'official' copyright positions I would have thought (but I'm no expert!)
nirgrahamUK: ha, technology fail. Well, they have regular email addresses: http://news.uchicago.edu/contact About the youtube video's, the ones of which there are multiple copies with tens of thousands of views each, that have been hosted for a few years would probably render them 'fair use' regardless of the 'official' copyright positions I would have thought (but I'm no expert!) I believe 'fair use' really means "the judges will decide" and nothing more. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use The thing about the videos having been on YT for a long time seems a myth. You don't need to file or contend copyrights to have/keep them, I believe that only applies to patents/trademarks. edit: Mail sent. VforVoluntary.com | Youtube.com/Nielsio | Reddit.com/r/austrian_economics | Post Points: 5
Amazing:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Windows_7.png
For permission to be granted by Microsoft for any uses allowed by these guidelines, you must comply with the following four requirements:
If you wish to benefit from Microsoft's automatic permission grant, you may not use screen shots of Microsoft product boot-up screens, opening screens, "splash screens," or screens from beta release products or other products that have not been commercially released. You may use other screen shots in advertising, in documentation (including educational brochures), in tutorial books, in videotapes, or on Web sites, provided that, in addition to the requirements above, you:
Nielsio, I would actually email Kinsella or another expert about this. I'm not sure how or where the line is drawn, but there is something to be said for you not making any money off of it. (I mean, if you're looking to sell what you're planning on making, then obviously this wouldn't work). But there are plenty of "fan videos" made using copyrighted characters and storylines (such as this one using DC Comics characters) in which no permission from Warner Bros. or DC was granted.
Perhaps this qualifies under fair use, or it may even be different since it's just the names and likenesses and not any actual images (i.e. all the footage is original). But I think it's definitely worth it to send over an email describing what you'd like to do and see what your options are.
John James: But there are plenty of "fan videos" made using copyrighted characters and storylines (such as this one using DC Comics characters) in which no permission from Warner Bros. or DC was granted. Perhaps this qualifies under fair use, or it may even be different since it's just the names and likenesses and not any actual images (i.e. all the footage is original).
But there are plenty of "fan videos" made using copyrighted characters and storylines (such as this one using DC Comics characters) in which no permission from Warner Bros. or DC was granted.
Perhaps this qualifies under fair use, or it may even be different since it's just the names and likenesses and not any actual images (i.e. all the footage is original).
I read that fan-made videos, artwork, stories, etc. are illegal but the companies don't sue because it would instantly turn the fans into enemies.
Got an answer:
"Can you describe the use of this photo (in what publication, for what duration, size?)"
So certainly not free use, and I won't be using it in my video, which I want to be able to be freely copied and mixed.
Maybe e-mail David and ask if he has any good snaps of his Father that he wouldn't mind declaring free for reuse.
nirgrahamUK:Maybe e-mail David and ask if he has any good snaps of his Father that he wouldn't mind declaring free for reuse.
Now that's a great idea. It would be great to have a decent one to use for Wikipedia. The one currently there is such a low resolution it can't be used for much (it looks blurry even in the infobox...however it has been ok'd for any use, so long as freetochoosemedia.org gets credit) I always liked this one...but have no idea who owns it. It was removed from the Wikipedia page a while back. (How stupid is all this?)