Scott Carnegie
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“First, it has to be your idea, not theirs.”
Yes, or else you are just a chump working for free.
I’ve done a few things here and there, I made an offer to a suicide hotline NFP after I heard an interview with their Pres who said they were having money troubles. I contacted them and offered to do a marketing video pro bono. A few weeks after our first meeting they shut down 🙁
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“There are times when I feel like the words Fair Use should be banned from the site.”
Critique, commentary, review and satire are all legit aspects of Fair Use.
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What you’re doing is fine.
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Always hav a contract when I.P. is being created, always.
That said, there are differnet laws for different places. In Canada, if I am hired to create a character for a client and there is no contract, by default I would be the creator of that character and would own the I.P.
I believe that the opposite is true in the U.S. Unless otherwise stated in a contract, you would be a “work-for-hire” and the entity paying you would own it. I’m 100% about that of course.
The Law and Video podcast is a good resource, check out a few episodes and you’ll learn a thing or two, I did 🙂
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“There was a study released a couple of weeks ago which said that people who habitually multitask are not good at any of the things they do, that they do everything poorly. ”
That study was reffering to real multi-tasking; talking on the phone while doing homework with the TV on. That’s not the same as sometimes wearing the editor hot and sometimes wearing a producer hat.
I find that doing both (I also shoot) makes me better at both.
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Where I work I acted as a “preditor” for a about a year on my own volition; I wanted to produce so I just satrted doing it. After about a year I was officially changed to a Producer/Editor and was put into a different pay scale because of that.
I like doing both and I like editing my own projects; it goes a lot quicker and I can get out of the edit suite and into the field for a shoot once in a while.
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If it’s a mutually benefitical agreement (Expo gets cheap labour, person gets networking/business experience) then I don’t see a problem. As for labour laws and minimum wage, I don’t know if applies in cases like these since they are employees. It would depend on your state laws.
Many events rely on volunteers, this is like voluntering with a little bonus. 🙂
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Best thing is to just ask them if it’s okay.
Obviously no logo, mentioning their name in the copy? Nothing against the law about that. Don’t make it sound like they are endorsing you or that you have an official relationship of some kind.
You can say the words Pepsi or Brad Pitt in a commercial; the words are coming out of your talents mouth, no one’s I.P. is being used.
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“Just because someone does something unethical, does not give one the right to break the law, as retribution. ”
That’s not what I’m advocating. I think that copyright laws are much too pervasive anyways.
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“No, you cannot sell them to anyone else. ”
While I understand that this is correct according to the letter of the law, morally it isn’t right that he is out $ because of this.