In the climactic scene, one of the teachers, who is taking his kids on a field trip for the first time, hears the song “Stairway to Heaven” by Led Zeppelin. The worst example of this happened when I was making a film called “The First Year,” a documentary which followed five teachers through their treacherous first year of teaching public school. We faced stressful and urgent questions like: Who owns this? Will anyone who thinks they own this sue me? Even though it was considered public domain ten years ago, is there a possibility someone might claim this? Will the lawyers for the production company and studio accept the conclusion I have carefully drawn and allow me to use it in the film? I have lost many shots and sequences because I wasn't able to answer these questions. Simply finding the source and status of archival footage nearly brought my production to its knees. In my last movie, “An Inconvenient Truth,” we had a terrible time clearing footage of all kinds. A54 2008 346.730482 - dc22īy Davis Guggenheim, Academy Award-winning director of the documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" As a director and producer of both commercial and non-commercial projects, I find myself on both sides of the war that rages around copyright and the public domain. Copyright - United States - Caricatures and cartoons. Public domain (Copyright law) - United States - Caricatures and cartoons. Fair use (Copyright) - United States - Caricatures and cartoons. Duke University Press Cataloging-in-Publication Data Aoki, Keith Bound by law? : tales from the public domain / Keith Aoki, James Boyle, and Jennifer Jenkins - New expanded ed. Your fair use and other rights are in no way affected by the above. Any of these conditions can be waived if you get permission from the copyright holder. For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the license terms of this work. If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under a license identical to this one. You may not use this work for commercial purposes. You must attribute the work as: Bound By Law © 2006, 2008 Keith Aoki, James Boyle, Jennifer Jenkins Noncommercial. This license gives you important freedoms, including the right to copy and distribute this book noncommercially without permission or fee, so long as you adhere to the terms described below.Īttribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 You are free: to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work to make derivative works Under the following conditions: Attribution.
Foreword by Davis Guggenheim Introduction by Cory DoctorowĬopyright © 2006, 2008 Keith Aoki, James Boyle, Jennifer Jenkins This work is made available under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution, Non-commercial, Share-alike license.
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