Guys, please let me know if it's OK to use cut-up royalty free video in a scene in a game where you can basically watch TV and switch between channels (like in Heavy Rain when the kid is watching cartoons).
I've been thinking about using this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_f2Enn8x5s&list=PLQHC0V7PP5uCxyTt5tlhM4pskJchzuZwN&index=3
Obviously, I'd just loop 2 minutes of it, or so.
Will I get sued?
-Rem
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Living_Dead#Copyright_status_and_home_media
The film is not copyrighted, it is in the public domain, noone holds the rights on it, so who would sue you? I think you can use the whole movie including audio. The reworked 4K version seems to have some copyright on it, as there went some work into making the crappy video footage from then into a crisp and sharp 4K movie, but if you scale the whole movie down to a small screen inside the small screen of an AGS game it might be fun for some players to watch the freaking whole movie inside the game. When scaled down enough and encoded clever the movie data might be even smaller than the corresponding audio data :)
If you live in the US the answer should be yes.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Filmmakers/comments/349kxh/if_night_of_the_living_dead_is_in_public_domain/
Two things - it's not an AGS (it's Unity) and the screen is pretty big.
The other - I don't live in the US but EU. Will that still be ok?
Quote from: Grim on Fri 13/04/2018 11:03:42
The other - I don't live in the US but EU. Will that still be ok?
I think yes, if Romero didn't renewed US copyright is the same for worlwide.
More than this I think you can literally remade the intere movie as a game, we talked about this here: http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/forums/index.php?topic=55624.0
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Gooooood! ;)
Thanks for the comments, guys!