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Is it free to use BBC material, such as news reel and archive footage, in your own commercial film production?
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Is it free to use BBC material, such as news reel, BBC drama and archive footage, in your own commercial film production?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.No you can't. The BBC would charge you and if course you would be breaking their copyright.
ITN offer a buyout/rights management option on archive footage. However, clips aren't cheap. I recently needed a 70 year VT clip of a sussex town for a documentary I am working on. The cost? �149 for 35 seconds.
As for the BBC, their BBC Motion Gallery is the best place to go.
ITN offer a buyout/rights management option on archive footage. However, clips aren't cheap. I recently needed a 70 year VT clip of a sussex town for a documentary I am working on. The cost? �149 for 35 seconds.
As for the BBC, their BBC Motion Gallery is the best place to go.