f your description of the intent of the group is accurate, then the guy you’re battling with is indeed a supreme douchebag!
*******My description is very accurate, and yes…he is an extreme douchebag.
Why on earth would he not want you to have the footage? Are you sure he doesn’t mean that he doesn’t want to hand out the raw footage master as opposed to making you a dub or providing digital copies of the raw takes? What I mean is…perhaps he’s just trying to protect he raw footage itself rather than give it out to folks?? Sort of like how movie studios used to lock away the raw footage reels to protect them and edit from duplicates.
I am sure…he does not want me to have a copy of the raw footage in any way, shape, or form. There is no intention on his part to keep anything at all for future of anything….Just an ass.