ASK & DISCUSS INDEX

9 years, 8 months ago - Michael Stewart

I think you should be able to use Life in a Day - the Kevin Macdonald, Google funded film - it is all crowd sourced and available for free on youtube... and it would be fun material to recut into a trailer

9 years, 8 months ago - Paddy Robinson-Griffin

You could use Night of the Living Dead - a big mess-up meant it's out of copyright, and it more or less defined the modern zombie movie

9 years, 8 months ago - Andrew Morgan

I believe 'Big Buck Bunny' (Pixar-style animation) is open-source.

9 years, 8 months ago - Paddy Robinson-Griffin

@Barbara Maria Hauser No, I'm saying there will be hardly any (that are worth watching, at least) because of the recoupment model for the huge amount of money involved in making a decent film. They don't fall out of copyright, so it takes an active waiving of rights, and this'll effectively never happen with a distributed feature.

9 years, 8 months ago - Lee 'Wozy' Warren

I have worked with a great director who was making an open sourced movie. It's not complete yet but he has a trailer I believe. No sure if this is of any use though, but I can send you his details in IM if you'd like to talk to him.

Wozy

9 years, 8 months ago - Katie Pow

I think Cosmonaut is an open source or creative commons feature. http://en.cosmonautexperience.com/

9 years, 8 months ago - Dan Selakovich

Check here:

http://www.openflix.com

Though, it's not completely sure of its films being in public domain, but they do make a pretty solid argument.

Here are 15 that are in the public domain (and a couple of these I find amazing that they are). But movie phone is a safe bet, for sure. They are industry run:

http://news.moviefone.com/2010/12/24/free-movies-online/

"Detour" and "Scarlet Street" are a couple of great film noir that would be really fun to make a trailer from. And kind of neat in that you could cut it in style of the period, or cut it with a modern take.

9 years, 8 months ago - Barbara Maria Hauser

Are you saying that there isnt any open source feature films?

9 years, 8 months ago - Barbara Maria Hauser

@Paddy Robinson-Griffin
Ok I get what you mean. I guess I will have to work with what I have found so far. Thanks a lot for your respond!

9 years, 8 months ago - Barbara Maria Hauser

Usually I would probably just risk it but I´d be disqualified from the competition if I used non-open source material.

9 years, 8 months ago - Paddy Robinson-Griffin

This might fall under fair use/fair dealing, being educational, excerpted, etc. But if a feature film was released as such, the costs involved are so huge, that there's a lot of momentum around not opening up the rights (indeed, fortunes spent on making sure rights don't end up in public domain, witness Mickey Mouse who would have been public domain a long time ago without Hollywood lobbying)

9 years, 8 months ago - Marlom Tander

Just do it.

If you don't have any commercial plans, and don't care about it staying up on YT or Vimeo then it's basically fair use.

Wait for the rights holders to object, if they ever do. Chances are they'll never notice it, and if they do, not care.

The Downfall case also taught film makers not to complain too much about people being genuinely effortful in repurposing material.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSYk8ofhYFY