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Topic: Copyright Sheets
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TrAcKa
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posted 03-25-2000 02:55 AM
Does anyone know where i can get Copyright sheets that i would get my actors and crew to fill out and sign?Cause i can remember seeing them before on pages...u get your crew and actors to sign them so
1. they don't steal any of your ideas or your work that they are working on
2. don't make profit elsewhere (apparently later on actors can claim profit from you or something) so u get them to sign this and then it protects u...especially if ur not intending to make a profit.. so anyone got any ideas?? Also if there is any aussies that have ones especially for Australian Copyright laws then that would be even better.
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Dream with your eyes wide open! |
Prism
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posted 03-26-2000 02:50 AM
The copyright laws changed back in the 70s I believe. (Whatever they were before must've been stupid)... but, you don't need to pay the blah government $20 for every little thing you want to copyright. You simply put your own copyright on it, with your name or organization, along with the year it was completed. It's that simple. I don't know why the government thinks they can sell you a right to something you created! It's crazy! Just like this thing going on, "name a star after someone special".. nobody's going to know or care a hundred years from now, and who's the gov't to say that a certain star belongs to someone anyway? Just another way they're sneaking more money out of our pockets. Guess they think they own everything, huh? LOL
Now, if someone is infringing your copyrighted material, then you need a copyright lawyer. I don't think a copyright lawyer is particularly expensive, but I wouldn't know for sure.Isaiah |
Prism
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posted 03-26-2000 02:52 AM
Oh, gee... you're from Australia, huh? Hmm.. not sure what things are like over there... Well, either way... have them sign something stating all the things you want them to promise... It should keep things in line.Isaiah |
TrAcKa
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posted 03-26-2000 03:01 AM
Yeah i'm australia
I know that it's easy to copyright ur actual work..but say if one of my crew is say doing illustrations for me...etc maybe they are trying to draw up a kewl bad guy from some descriptions i've worked on..what if they take the idea and use the description and image for a bad guy they came up for me but they do a runner and use it for there own movie?
get it? surely there is a sheet u can make up and get them to sign that prevents them from doing **** like that.
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crazy lou
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posted 03-26-2000 03:06 AM
i've got a link or a page floating around somewhere, moving stuff from zip disk to cd right now, so its a little messy, but i'll find it and post it up here. i dont have a burner, i'm using my bosses, so it may be at his house, i dont even know where my pants are....hey, what's going on?!? later
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Jake Stallion
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posted 03-26-2000 09:01 AM
http://www.filmpartners.com/legal.cfm There's your contract library.
And I think the "Name A Star After Someone Special" thing is just a cute fund-raiser for NASA... They aren't actually selling a star to anyone. Most of the stars they sell aren't even visible from earth, and will continue to be refered to by whatever their catalog number is. NASA doesn't get much funding, so they have to do whatever they can to insure that someday, I will be able to go to space and film a wicked-ass scifi movie...
But I guess once people start going to space, scifi will seem a margin or two less cool, eh?
Oh well, have a nice day=)
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Jeff F
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posted 03-27-2000 03:00 AM
What the government sells you is Registration of your copyright - recordkeeping and verification of it, which is actually pretty reasonable for the price. A copyright is indeed active at the moment of creation under current US law, but you'd better be able to prove it if push comes to shove.If Joe Thief steals your script and types a bogus but earlier copyright date than yours on the bottom of their version, who is to be believed? Corroborating evidence becomes necessary, and a govt. registration is unarguable. Similarly, Patents don't automatically protect inventions, they simply give you solid proof in court that said invention is unquestionably yours. The original question actually deals in part with nondisclosure. Signed releases are also needed to film anyone in a film, including paid/unpaid actors and background characters/extras/walk-ons/etc. Anyone but a legally recognised celebrity has the right to control the use of their image (and even celebrties have some rights inthis regard), so you need a document establishing their permission to you to film anyone, should arguments arise later on. Anyone under 18 can't be legally bound by a contract, so their parent must sign for them. Welcome to our litigious society, where the unprepared get screwed on a regular basis. ------------------
Jeff F - Magic and FX
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Prism
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posted 03-28-2000 02:29 AM
Good point, Jeff F...
I never really thought about it that way.
I guess I'm not so hostile to government copyright registration after all...Isaiah | |
