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Using images from video games in my short film.....

Chelsey Burdon

10 years, 4 months ago - Chelsey Burdon

Hi everyone,
I was hoping one of my fellow shooters would be able to assist me with a query. I'll be directing my next short at the end of April and part of the script involves a moment where the title screen for a popular xbox zombie game is seen on a TV screen as somebody marches over and switches it off. I was wondering where that might stand with Copyright - if its not in-game footage, but rather the home menu would I still need any kind of clearance for this? Would the situation be the same if it was instead the title screen from a film DVD?

If anybody could point me in the direction of more info on this I'd really appreciate it.

Thanks

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Chelsey Burdon

10 years, 4 months ago - Chelsey Burdon

Ok, thanks Andrew, that shouldn't be too difficult.

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Andrew Morgan

10 years, 4 months ago - Andrew Morgan

Yep. You'd need clearance. In fact, you'd technically need clearance for showing the games console and the TV. In practice though, stuff like this seldom poses a problem but if it's in your film then it *could* pose a problem. Always better to mock something up on some generic no-name screen and hardware.

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