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navytrooper
08-21-2009, 01:53 PM
Well I was looking around Youtube and I found the Air Force ad for protecting satellites and stuff.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uk7DVpCkgwQ


I thought the part with the satellite exploding was pretty cool, and I want to use it in a no budget movie my friend and I are making (probably nonprofit). Can I use it as long as I put "U.S. AIR FORCE" at the bottom, or do I actually have to ask permission?

Who should I ask?
SlightlyCatholic
08-21-2009, 09:18 PM
As long as you cite your source, you shouldn't have a copyright problem...unless it specifically says in the video that redistribution is not permitted. Normally, redistribution is only the problem if you're charging money to see it.
Saint Marc
08-21-2009, 09:46 PM
No bro that film is USAF was made with your tax dollars and thus yours and the public's domain.
Billyd
08-21-2009, 09:56 PM
Contact Air Force Public Affairs and cover your hindquarters on this one. At least try to get something in writing. Should be able to find contact info at the Air Force web site

http://www.af.mil
C/SSGT Seifer
08-21-2009, 10:51 PM
No bro that film is USAF was made with your tax dollars and thus yours and the public's domain.

Just because the ad is made with tax payers' money, it doesn't make it theirs. Taxes pay for police vehicles, but we can't just jump in to once. Furthermore, he isn't a tax payer seeing as he is a minor. (That is, if my sources are correct and NSCC only goes up to 18.)
navytrooper
08-22-2009, 12:49 AM
Contact Air Force Public Affairs and cover your hindquarters on this one. At least try to get something in writing. Should be able to find contact info at the Air Force web site

http://www.af.mil

I got as far as here (http://www.af.mil/main/contactus.asp) but I have no idea who the "recipient" would be (there's a drop-down list).
fjer
08-23-2009, 02:09 PM
Marc is right about it being public domain (assuming Air Force employees created it, ie the Air Force didn't buy it from someone else):

http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#105
TruBlu
08-23-2009, 03:12 PM
Just because the ad is made with tax payers' money, it doesn't make it theirs. Taxes pay for police vehicles, but we can't just jump in to once. Furthermore, he isn't a tax payer seeing as he is a minor. (That is, if my sources are correct and NSCC only goes up to 18.)

We all pay taxes of some sort. When was the last time you bought something or got a pay check?