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Poster:	Bridgewater Video	Date:	March 06, 2008 04:25:17pm
Forum:	stock_footage	Subject:	ATTENTION: ARCHIVE STAFF!

Hello Archive Staff, I just wanted to wave a flag and draw attention to this ........... Also, hello Robin, please be patient. The Archive Staff is very overworked, but they will notice this soon and move it if they feel it is within the public domain and works as Stock Footage. After you download a few clips to the Stock Footage Archive you will be given the ability to do direct download and you won't need for the staff to move the material. I should note that this is a nice quality clip. Thanks for sharing .........

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Poster:	Robin_1990	Date:	March 06, 2008 04:54:07pm
Forum:	stock_footage	Subject:	Re: ATTENTION: ARCHIVE STAFF!

Your welcome. I'm 90% sure it's Public Domain, For the following reasons:
1. There is a direct reference to show to it's from ("Joan will be right back", Refering to Joan Davis, Star of "I Married Joan").
2. It's certainly old enough
3. Due to that reference to the show it's from, It hasn't been shown since at least 1955 (When "I Married Joan" was cancelled)
4. The commercial stars nobody famous
5. It's not part of a major advertising compaign
6. I've seen GE commercials from the 50's on various budget DVDs. Since these DVDs have been sold for some time and haven't been removed from sale, It's safe to say many GE ads are PD.

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Poster:	Bridgewater Video	Date:	March 06, 2008 06:12:33pm
Forum:	stock_footage	Subject:	Re: ATTENTION: ARCHIVE STAFF!

I would feel so much better if you were 100% sure. You say this comes from a store bought DVD? The footage in the stock footage section is meant to be reedited into other videos and will spread quickly. I'm not a lawyer, but lets play pretend for a moment. Lets say Mr. Rick Prelinger buys an old film print of a old GE fridge ad. He looks it up and its within public domain. He pays to have it transfered to digital media and donates it for free public use. That is a great thing and I am happy for it. Now lets talk about mr. business man. He pays a lot of money to buy up a bunch of old films on Ebay. He pays more money to transfer it to video. More money to clean up the sound. Then he produces the DVD and puts a copyright on his new "digitally remixed version" of the video. He is a business man. He does not donate it for public use. I think that if you take his copy and release it to the public you stand a chance of getting into some trouble. I sure hope I'm wrong. (I am wrong a lot)

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Poster:	Robin_1990	Date:	March 06, 2008 06:56:47pm
Forum:	stock_footage	Subject:	Re: ATTENTION: ARCHIVE STAFF!

Actaully, I recieved this DVD from a friend who sells Public Domain content on DVD. He gets his stuff from his friends who are archivists. I checked the copyright office and the DVD was never submitted for copyright.

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Poster:	Bridgewater Video	Date:	March 06, 2008 07:00:51pm
Forum:	stock_footage	Subject:	Re: ATTENTION: ARCHIVE STAFF!

Great. I look forward to more.