Community Theatre and Production Rights- Page 2
Community Theatre and Production Rights
Matt Rogers
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/4/04
#25Community Theatre and Production Rights
Posted: 9/11/13 at 1:11pmOh really? Thanks for letting me know. That comes as a great surprise, since I have been working in this business my entire adult life. But I guess a sweaty headband would know better.
Lisa Higbee
Swing Joined: 3/11/17
#26Community Theatre and Production Rights
Posted: 3/11/17 at 3:15pm
What if you want to use video footage of some of your parts in a show for an actor's reel and post it on youtube? Would your footage need to be 30 seconds or less, count as promotional video and be part of the 3 minutes total allowed?
Lisa Higbee
Swing Joined: 3/11/17
#27Community Theatre and Production Rights
Posted: 3/11/17 at 3:15pm
What if you want to use video footage of some of your parts in a show for an actor's reel and post it on youtube? Would your footage need to be 30 seconds or less, count as promotional video and be part of the 3 minutes total allowed?
#28Community Theatre and Production Rights
Posted: 3/11/17 at 3:22pm
Goodness what a mountain out of a molehill. When you sign a contract for the rights, the licensing agreement will spell out the terms of everything the original poster is asking about.
astromiami
Understudy Joined: 7/12/12
#29Community Theatre and Production Rights
Posted: 3/11/17 at 3:25pm
Thank you. I was reading this thread absolutely baffled as to why no one simply reads their contract to find out what they are allowed to do in regarud to promotional video.
It is always pretty damn clear if you just look.
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#30Community Theatre and Production Rights
Posted: 3/11/17 at 3:26pm
And the original thread is nearly 4 years old!
#31Community Theatre and Production Rights
Posted: 3/11/17 at 3:27pm
In terms of a reel- you probably wouldn't want more than a minute of a song anyway, so it likely wouldn't be an issue.
freewilma
Leading Actor Joined: 2/18/15
#32Community Theatre and Production Rights
Posted: 3/11/17 at 6:21pm
astromiami said: "Thank you. I was reading this thread absolutely baffled as to why no one simply reads their contract to find out what they are allowed to do in regarud to promotional video.
It is always pretty damn clear if you just look.
However, an actor in a production doesn't necessarily have a copy of the licensing contract. That often stays with the producing organization. They might be able to ask to see a copy of the license...but possibly not if the show happened a couple of years ago.
#33Community Theatre and Production Rights
Posted: 3/11/17 at 7:00pm
It doesn't really matter if the actor has seen the contract or not. The theater is supposed to honor the terms of the contract and not produce (and thus make available to the actor) more footage than is legally allowed by the contracts' terms. Even at the community theater level, all filming should be controlled by the theater. If anyone other than the theater is filming the show, safe to say it's an automatic violation of the contract anyway.
If the actor is in doubt, stick to the 'under one minute rule' for publishing footage and it should probably be fine. By industry standards, one minute of footage of a single scene or song in a demo reel is actually quite a long time, and usually more than enough for a casting director to see what they need to see.
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