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Legal form to use content of books, pictures, piece of art ect... HELP please

Charles Meunier

6 years, 4 months ago - Charles Meunier

Hello good people,

I'm working on a feature film and we are using the content of around 50 books to be used as props by the characters to help the plot and have more interesting visuals.
It goes from pictures, graphs, maths equations and sometimes texts. All of it will be visible by the camera, and I am looking for a legal document to get the authors, artists or publishers to sign.
Can anyone help? I would rather not spend money we don't have on a layer if we don't have to.

Thank you so much for your help.

Best of luck on your own projects.

Charles

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Paddy Robinson-Griffin

6 years, 4 months ago - Paddy Robinson-Griffin

My suggestion is to mock up anything you use - anything that's in the shot in a feature film is put in the shot, so cannot be claimed to be incidental (as in a documentary). Even maps, apps, diagrams, stories etc.

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Marlom Tander

6 years, 4 months ago - Marlom Tander

I agree with Paddy - mockup will be easier than permissions. Though if the work is out of copyright you should be OK. Might work if they hunting lost treasure, not so much if building drones...

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