<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div><div><div><div>On Jun 7, 2009, at 8:33 AM, <a href="mailto:DCFWTX@aol.com">DCFWTX@aol.com</a> wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; ">It's one thing for a kid in the back bedroom of his home to broadcast his latest skateboard video. But running corporate videos and broadcast material containing live and deceased talent, is a risk not worth taking. </span></blockquote></div></div><div><br></div>What David points out in the entirety of his post is a group of things that go above and beyond issues of Copyright to a particular program or content.<div><br></div><div>For music in programs, there's a "performance rights" issue... the right to "perform" the music in public. And if one is using the music as background for images, there's a "Synchronization License" needed. Terms and costs vary with the intended use and potential distribution.</div><div><br></div><div>The documentary "Eyes on the Prize" was not able to be publicly distributed or broadcast for quite a while, because the producers had only licensed rights to some music clips for seven years... all they could afford to do at the time. Which was before there was much thought to the program having some "legs" both in broadcast and "for sale" media like VHS and DVD. I understand those issues have been resolved recently, and the program is now available.<br><div><br></div><div>The "Right of Publicity" through which celebrities (or the average person) can control the use of their image, likeness and voice is another significant issue, and one which many famous people—or their estates—vigorously defend.</div><div><br></div><div>One such estate is that of Dr. Martin Luther King. Depending on the use, one has to license from King's estate the of use excerpts of his "I have a dream" speech and others, because of the underlying copyright in the written speech, itself, and the "right of publicity" as it may apply.</div><div><br></div><div>The inability to clear ALL the rights—copyright, performance rights to music, right to use a performer's appearance on a program, making contractually required payments to musicians in a show's band or orchestra, etc.—may be significant reasons that more programs that were recorded on Quad or Kinescope—and are on shelves world-wide are not publicly available.</div><div><br></div><div><div>YouTube or otherwise, as David says, it can be a quagmire with some unintended consequences.</div><div><br></div><div>Ted</div><div><div><div><br></div></div><div apple-content-edited="true"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Ted Langdell</span></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Secretary</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Skype: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>TedLangdell</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">e-mail:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><a href="mailto:ted@quadvideotapegroup.com">ted@quadvideotapegroup.com</a></span></font></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span> </div><br></div></div></div></body></html>