Filmmaking & Copyright Law
About: A three-part series produced as part of a collaboration between the UK Intellectual Property Office, and educational charity Learning on Screen.
It was designed to help anyone interested or involved in filmmaking understand how and when they can re-use rights-protected works. Highlighting aspects of copyright legislation intended to enable, not hinder, creative re-use of protected works.
The production theme of its three-act structure provides an entry point to a subject often seem as opaque.
Role: Script, Designer, Animator, Voiceover
Act 2: Production uses practical photography and archive footage to discuss exceptions, permissions, and the public domain.
Act 3: Post-Production turns to audio and distribution to examine licensing, comi on rights-protected audio, along with
Act 1: Pre-Production uses early ideation, writing and influences to cover questions such whether an idea itself can be protected.
