Copyright question...?

Question

If I produce a video in a Media Production class at my school, who is the legal owner of the video?

I used the school's camera and computer (for a majority of the editing..some on my own computer). Is there anything else that needs to be clarified?

Thank you.

Answer 1

Who Can Claim Copyright?

Copyright protection subsists from the time the work is created in fixed form. The copyright in the work of authorship immediately becomes the property of the author who created the work. Only the author or those deriving their rights through the author can rightfully claim copyright.

In the case of works made for hire, the employer and not the employee is considered to be the author.

Answer 2

The copyright for a video or movie is in the name of the producer. Producers rarely own the cameras and production gear, just as novelists rarely own the printing presses that make books. Copyright is for the intellectual creative work. So if your teacher didn't direct the project or the school didn't contract for its production, i would assume that all the creative input came solely from you. That makes you the producer, owner of copyright and also the responsible party if there should be lawsuits for defamation, pirated music or other problems.

Answer 3

Its your work, so you own the copyright, unless the school paid you to produce it