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Under the "fair usage" laws, filmmakers are able to use images created by other people, regardless of copyright status, in their films as long as those films are documentary in nature. (This is speaking very generally.)
I'm trying to create a short documentary, to be made in high-definition video, using mainly still, journalistic/editorial style images under such fair usage laws. The thing is, though, that the images I use need to be of high technical quality (clear, high-resolution photos, etc.) but the image banks that lease the rights for the pictures I may be interested in (Associated Press, etc.) want to charge for each image used (and, when all is said and done, there could be hundreds used in this project). I also looked briefly at Google Images, but those are optimized for web display, not hi-def video usage.
There's really no budget to do this film, so spending $600 for rights to use a single image is out of the question.
What suggestions do you have?
I'm trying to create a short documentary, to be made in high-definition video, using mainly still, journalistic/editorial style images under such fair usage laws. The thing is, though, that the images I use need to be of high technical quality (clear, high-resolution photos, etc.) but the image banks that lease the rights for the pictures I may be interested in (Associated Press, etc.) want to charge for each image used (and, when all is said and done, there could be hundreds used in this project). I also looked briefly at Google Images, but those are optimized for web display, not hi-def video usage.
There's really no budget to do this film, so spending $600 for rights to use a single image is out of the question.
What suggestions do you have?