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Legal Question: Are interviews property?

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PoPPeR

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My friend and I are having a discussion about the new movie being released about 2Pac (trailer for anyone that cares) entitled Tupac Resurrection. Anyways, for once, I'm actually being negative about the whole thing. I realize he has another hundred billion unreleased songs out there, but this is a movie and I don't see how there will be enough good material to put together into a movie that hasn't been seen a million times already in the gazillion documentaries already released about his life and death.

So anyways, Afeni Shakur owns the rights to his music. Does she own the rights to interviews also? How many unreleased interviews or video footages are probably out there? Would there be a difference between interviews done by network companies and just personal interviews as far as rights go?

This was intended to be more of a thread about legal rights then about rap/2Pac, so please no bashing.
 
Usually the TV station/newspaper/whoever pays a fee to to the celebrity to get the interview and then any footage or whatever is the property of that company. However, there are usually restrictions in the contract over how it used.
 
So there could be a whole bridgade of unseen interviews out there that weren't released because they were possibly owned by his mother?
 
Originally posted by: PoPPeR
So there could be a whole bridgade of unseen interviews out there that weren't released because they were possibly owned by his mother?
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I sincerely doubt she has very much unseen footage of interviews with him that she owns the rights to.
Considering her son is the interviewee... thus she would not actually be contracting him for interviews.
 
I'm no lawyer and everything can probably be contested one way or another legally... I guess everything depends on how well the argument is for or against something.

But, I think unless something absolutely creative was done in the interview, the cameraman/directory/etc/tv station owns the copyright because he set it into a tangible medium. I think there was a court case about something like this a few years ago.
 
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