DVD’s & Copyright?
By Yahoo User • Category: Copyrights in AustraliaAUSTRALIA - Copyright Questions!!Question Details:I have taped many “home movies” inside my church over the past four years… and I’d like to make mini-movies out of them to sell in the church as a fundraiser… what issues am I dealing with??Do I need to have absolutely every single persons approval to use their image on my movies?? Am I allowed to show our band playing songs that we sing that aren’t written by us? (I know we can use our own homegrown songs)What other things might I need to consider? I don’t want to break any laws!Reminder - I’m in Australia… HELP PLEASE!!
Sorry I do not KNOW…. Australian Law…!But…. most movies…. containing People… NEED A… “MODEL RELEASE!’Ask the Pastor or the Board….. I am sure they will give you the Go Ahead!Thanks, RRP.S. I would like to buy one….!
If you are rated as “press” you can video and photograph anyone and strangely enough people can video their neighbours, but yours is a grey area, if you record it as a documentary you might be OK. Call the ABC or SBS I guess
Not sure on Aussie law but I had a “workaround” for teh UK and also for Norway now I moved.Do NOT “sell” the discs.Make the films, and if people “donate” over a predetermined amount to the fund they are “given” a gift of some of the youth work etc the church does.I did one of a concert for a friend and used that loophole. Not selling, it was a “thankfou” for a contribution to his years financing on a mission project