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Apr 13, 2004, 8:41 AM
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: Hello everyone,
: I was just thinking about copyrighting a video I produced for a non-profit company
: a few weeks ago, and I went through the video and saw some shirts people wore
: have names of companies. One says EMS and there are others. If I do not have
: permission from these companies can I still copyright my video? Thanks a lot for
: any help!
: T
This answer REALLY doesn't fall into "marketing advice..." Hmm...
on second thought, maybe it does. Non-profit company or not, when
I have a shoot scheduled in a client's facilities where their
employees are going to be videotaped, I always give the client
a pre-production memo detailing what needs to be done before
shooting commences. That includes such obvious things as
"make sure floors and machines and facilities are clean,"
assigning someone from the company to accompany the crew, AND
getting word to the employees that the production team is
going to be shooting on such and such a date. We always ask
management to suggest to the employees that they NOT wear their
Harley Davidson or Hooters tee-shirts on filming day -'please
wear non-branded clothing.' On several occasions, I've even
rented a rack or two of lab coats or matching blue work shirts
from a uniform rental company to try and keep things looking
as nicely as possible.
Oh -one more thing. During the course of a shoot, we always
tell employees that for any reason, if they DON'T want to be
seen on camera, to let us know and we'll replace them with
someone who does.
Steve
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