Hello everyone,
Does anyone know if I can use video sequences from movies in my research? More specifically, is it legal to trim video segments from movies and run computer vision algorithms on them or would I have copyright issues when I am going to present my experimental results in a international conference? Is there a company that could grants permits for digital media? Does the same law applies for EU projects?
This article is written in the USA and the restrictions may vary in other countries. Laws and regulations also change. I think that the article provides some basic thoughts that you are looking.
Shipley, D. E., & Hay, J. S. (1984). Protecting Research: Copyright, Common-Law Alternatives, and Federal Preemption. NCL Rev., 63, 125.
http://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPagehandle=hein.journals/nclr63&div=11&id=&page=
Do you mean showing excerpts from movies to participants and collecting data on their reaction?
As Arthur says, I am am sure that the laws are different from country to country.
I the United States, you may show copyrighted material in the classroom, and you may reproduce "brief excerpts" for purposes of review or criticism of the work.
Also, you can show copyrighted works to a private group if you have legitimately paid for a copy of the original, but you cannot show the same work to a group invited publicly without paying royalty fees.
I plan to analyze very specific video segments from very specific movies that some are available online, while others are not. Some of the movies that are on my list are: Metropolis (1927), Blade Runner (1982), Brazil (1985) and The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014).
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