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Copyright In A Nutshell For Found Footage Filmmakers, Brian L. Frye May 2016

Copyright In A Nutshell For Found Footage Filmmakers, Brian L. Frye

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Found footage is an existing motion picture that is used as an element of a new motion picture. Found footage filmmaking dates back to the origins of cinema. Filmmakers are practical and frugal, and happy to reuse materials when they can. But found footage filmmaking gradually developed into a rough genre of films that included documentaries, parodies, and collages. And found footage became a familiar element of many other genres, which used found footage to illustrate a historical point or evoke an aesthetic response.

It can be difficult to determine whether found footage is protected by copyright, who owns the …


A Riff On Billy The Kid, Richard H. Underwood Apr 2016

A Riff On Billy The Kid, Richard H. Underwood

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In this essay the author discusses Billy Joel’s recording of Billy the Kid and that song's history.