And even if it's a documentary, I wouldn't be able to use it--the bigger film festivals, HBO, PBS, etc. all wanted signed releases from every person with screen time in a documentary--and you have to provide the same paper trail for pictures and footage used.
Sit-down interviews, that is. If I go up to him with a camer and he walks away and I follow him, I'm in the clear as long as I don't set foot on private property.
About the HBO thing--you now have to provide documentation you have the right even to use music in the background, so if you're making a film on, say, wikipedia, and Jimmy's wife turns on the radio and the viewer can make out even the slightest bit of Metallica, you have to pay the record company to use that footage. Which means that, more often than not, you'll be cutting that footage from the film.
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At 07:08 AM 7/9/02 -0700, kq wrote:
I'm in the clear as long as I don't set foot on private property.
That goes back to the original question about MOBY in the tea room, and applies at many concerts, malls, etc.
So MOBY may or may not have given notice that permission for entry into the tearoom, includes not taking pictures, as is usual at a concert, but he might be able to ask you to leave.
There are a number of "public spaces" particularly malls which are not in fact public spaces in the law, but private property where some rather onerous restrictions can apply.
Fred Bauder
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