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Who owns the footage?
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[Jeff Fink] “he literally did nothing for a week during the most important part of the project and would only be able to give (I found out later) 1-2 days per week towards the project. In my opinion, that’s not enough to make a film..”
I’ve had many executive producers who put in that much effort…or less. Some are off working on finding new shows to keep the company afloat…others, just milking the company and not working much. But, they are the owners, and they came up with the idea, and then farmed out the producing of that to others.
[Jeff Fink] “I am a filmmaker. He had never made a film before”
So what? Tons of films are financed/made by people who come from real estate, or banking.
Sorry…you are in the wrong here. Sever ties and move on.
Shane
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As others have said, you seemingly hijacked his project in short order. Even if the whole thing was about to die on the vine it’s his deal to let die. Since you are the experienced part of the duo did you even try to advise your friend before you decided to announce you were taking over?
I’m not a lawyer, I don’t know what the exact verbal agreement was, I don’t know how the releases were worded but my arm chair QB guess is that he owns the rights to the footage. Maybe even you both have claim to it but I highly doubt you have sole ownership of it. IP can be a crazy thing. I mean, right now there are two versions of the band Queensryche out there and their record label is releasing a greatest hits album recorded by a previous version of Queensryche that doesn’t exist anymore.
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So, what happened?
Bob C
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Betting you won’t hear back from this guy, Bob.
He joined the COW the day he first posted this, and hasn’t been back except for two responses.
I have a feeling he’s one of those guys who was looking for validation of his opinion, even though he was clearly in the wrong… and when he didn’t get it (quite the opposite, in fact), he took his ball and went home.
Just my guess.
T2
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Todd Terry
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Too bad. I was curious.
Way back when I had a PA who stole a concept of mine for a mockumentary. He won a national prize with his film, never credited me, left a trail of bad debts to a number of suppliers — but he was so brazen about it that I sort of found the whole thing charming.
There is definitely an “ethos” (as opposed to “ethic”) that some filmmakers evince: I’m doing Art and therefore whatever it takes is fine.
Bob C
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