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Anyone have an example of a location agreement?

$500????? I have a vastly better opportunity: Premiere your movie for FREE on YouTube! This is not 1990 any more. Anyone who would pay $500 to have their movie shown at a theater reminds me of these bands that pay to play at the Roxy or Whisky. Throwing away money.

Yeah I know a lot of people who spent their last dime or remortgaged their house to shoot a movie. LA is expensive. Indie movie LOSE money -- LOTS of money. So making decent money working on a movie is like trying to squeeze blood out of a rock. How to get funding for a movie? Find a really...

After Effects was a very easy program to learn. I just skimmed through the owner's manual. If you've already learned Final Cut Studio then AE is a breeze. After Effects is about 1/10th a difficult as learning Dreamweaver.

A sculpture is art. I actually had to blur out a sculpture because the director failed to get clearance. A lawyer looked at it and said get it out! Maybe it's in public domain or maybe not.... https://copyright.cornell.edu/resources/publicdomain.cfm

A knock off is essentially a rip off of an existing work. Yes you can get sued for that. Are you actually copying a specific painting or just drawing something that looks like it might be by this artist? I would look into whether there are public domain rights to this artist's work? How long...

DON'T use the writer's guild to register your work! They destroy your submission after like 5 or 6 years unless you pay AGAIN. Instead use the US Copyright Office to register your work.

Well I disagree with this filmmaker. I always thought there was plenty of good non-union talent out there. Often it's union people who work on non-union films but under the radar, sometimes using a different name. At the end of the day it all depends on your needs. Do you have roles that you...

What does a "producer" really do? If you don't define it then he could turn into a deadbeat and use production budget to hire a line producer to do everything.

Sorry to hear. In the future you need to protect yourself with a bullet proof contract, and MOST importantly get paid in installments as various stages of work are completes so that they don't pull a bait and switch on you. This goes for ANY film industry job... or just about any other type of...

It's funny because I had read all of the complaints about York and heard a first hand story from a small distributor who was owed 85% from York, then I ran into Tonya at AFM. I was talking to someone about my film. She overheard the conversation and said something like "Oh I'm a distributor. Let...

There's some quite interesting reviews about York on Ripoff Report dot com

$4.50 sounds good. I thought maybe it was like 2 cents or something. What is the process to get a movie for sale on Vimeo? Can you sign up as an individual or do you have to go through a distributor?

A little off topic but how much does Vimeo pay per view?

Copy the language from some other company that rents. Rental companies have their own insurance. They also require for renters to have insurance of their own.

You need to license a new recording from the artist himself. Hopefully this artist has the right to do this in the first place. Did he do a non-exclusive license with this audionetwork company? And is the recording itself his own production? Yeah I hate that about royalty free music. You can...

What Olympic lawyer will ever know? Don't sweat it.

I did a little digging around online. Looks like laws vary from state to state. I can over dub some of it using paid scanner sounds from a library.

Yeah. LAPD. Can't use it. http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4804:wy7840.2.2 I searched for the specific police department ("Mission Police Department") that I'm wanting to use and there's no trademark for anything. There's also more than one police department across the US...

Conversations. I don't know how anyone would ever identify benign sounds. "Hey that's my distortion sound. I'm gonna sue you." Not!