Anyone know anyone that works for the MPAA that might be able to help me? Here's the deal... In our Spring semester one of our classes has a movie review show as the final project, we want this to be on our Youtube live stream and hopefully stored for on demand. We have an account with EPK.tv, but when you start looking through the licensing, it really becomes impossible to do a show like this. Also we want to be able to highlight assets that are on disk/streaming distribution and all the EPK stuff is current/future release material. I did send an email to the general contact address at the MPAA explaining what we want to do, but no answer. Just thought I would see if anyone has a better contact that I should use to help bring this to reality.
And before anyone asks, last time I checked the recent copyright law changes give permission to do just about anything with any content, as long as it doesn't leave the classroom. So yes we are already running the show and have for a couple of years, it just doesn't go anywhere and they watch them back in class a few days before finals. A sad result for so much effort.
EPK.tv support has not responded to messages on this same topic. The site Movieclips.com which is a Fandango site, replied and said there was nothing they could do to help us.
Yes trying to do the right things with licensing, but the way it is structured, they really make it a necessity to either not produce a show, or pirate the material. And no, the NEWS loophole can not be used, these are entertainment shows (movie review shows). The Youtube filters catch things even when in private mode, I sent a bunch of "public" promos through when I was setting up and testing our encoder (private event stream) and they got flagged very quickly. We need some agency to "whitelist" our channel to be able to have this content. Yes "whitelist" is the direct term from the Youtube Creator Studio help pages, but still not entirely certain how to perform this "whitelist".
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And before anyone asks, last time I checked the recent copyright law changes give permission to do just about anything with any content, as long as it doesn't leave the classroom. So yes we are already running the show and have for a couple of years, it just doesn't go anywhere and they watch them back in class a few days before finals. A sad result for so much effort.
EPK.tv support has not responded to messages on this same topic. The site Movieclips.com which is a Fandango site, replied and said there was nothing they could do to help us.
Yes trying to do the right things with licensing, but the way it is structured, they really make it a necessity to either not produce a show, or pirate the material. And no, the NEWS loophole can not be used, these are entertainment shows (movie review shows). The Youtube filters catch things even when in private mode, I sent a bunch of "public" promos through when I was setting up and testing our encoder (private event stream) and they got flagged very quickly. We need some agency to "whitelist" our channel to be able to have this content. Yes "whitelist" is the direct term from the Youtube Creator Studio help pages, but still not entirely certain how to perform this "whitelist".
:undecided