st3v1e
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Feb 19, 2006, 2:53 AM
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Who owns the footage???
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Hi guys,
got a small problem, and wondered if anyone can give me a definitive answer.
Myself and another guy were asked if we would be prepared to shoot an amateur film in our local town.
In a nutshell . . . . we undertook the project, which was a disaster from the start - as no-one except ourselves knew anything about film making and our advice was constantly ignored - resulting in many, many extra unnecessary hours of filming (ie: no storyboarding, direction of the actors, etc etc).
Now after all the footage has been shot (as far as we're concerned), the woman who initially asked us to shoot the footage is asking for all footage shot to be "given" to her as she claims it's her's.
All footage was shot on our own equipment and on our own tape stock - furthermore, there is no footage on tape, as it was all transferred to Hard Drive months ago for editing, as we needed to free our tape stock for other projects.
The situation between us has deteriorated because of her unreasonable requests to constantly take up our time (time we could have been using to make money on other paid projects).
Can anyone advise as to what our rights are and if we should simply "hand over" footage on the Hard Drives - to date we estimate that we've provided this lady in the region of 300-400 hours of our unpaid time.
Thanks,
Steve
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