Copyright Aid

I recently acquired some home movies from a car boot sale. They appear to have been filmed in the mid 1930s and I know who shot the films (the camera woman died in the 1970s). I was going to have them scanned and potentially put them online or reuse them in one of my films. I can't imagine they were ...

I was hoping to be able use around 8 secs of a 9 minute archive film in a YouTube video. The film has a copyright holder, but I intend to use the quotation exemption as I believe it covers film. I will credit the film appropriately and am only using as much as is reasonable. However, I see the ...

Very helpful, Andy. Thank you.

According to the 1911 Act:

Provisions as to photographs

The term for which copyright shall subsist in photographs shall be fifty years from the making of the original negative from which the photograph was directly or indirectly derived, and the person who was owner of such negative at the time ...