Nowadays it seems that everything in the world is copyrighted and owned by someone else. As David Guggenhaim stated in the introduction of the book "Bound By Law", he told of one of his films had the soundtrack "Stairway to Heaven" by Led Zeppelin in one of the scenes which he was not allowed to be screened because he didn't have the legal rights to. I completely agree with what he has to say about the law, quote "when I lift my camera and look through the lens, there is less and less that is free to use: do I have to clear that soda can, that poster, that car or that highrise? What happens to our culture when some of us can pay and others can’t?" This means that any work done by an artist, film-maker, studio maker etc. has to be original.
Documentary Films
Documentary's are films of our culture, but as it states in the comic, our culture nowdays are full of artifacts protected by intellectual property rights,for things such as music, art, films, anything. When making films we don't know what should be copyrighted and what not, which is why the law has changed it now that creative arts are now automatically copyrighted, however the only way you can use copyrighted work without permission is if it's already in the public domain. It is even that if you film something that is copyrighted and it's just in the background, not actually on purpose, you still need to get permission to show this or pay for it.Terry Gilliam had borrowed plenty of images for his work and 20 years later a court distribution of his movie "12 monkeys" he was then faced with a 6 figure payment to use the set design. It's not become a vicious circle, simply because if you're going to be made to pay for using other work, you're going to want people to pay you for your work. As Judge Kozinski stated " Overprotecting intellectual property is as harmful as under protecting it. Creativity is impossible without a rich public domain... Overprotection stifles the very creative it's supposed to nurture."
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