Military and Model Releases
dnavarrojr
4 Aug 2009 18:33
In Soviet Russia, if you shoot the military, they shoot you.
wideweb
5 Aug 2009 05:40
OK, if this is the situation, then I am looking for footage that will help me to determine the following facts:
1. What is the max speed of American tanks?
2. What type of ammonition and personnel in each tank?
3. How many airplanes and their ammo can be stored on each carrier?
4. Type of communications between American airplanes and NATO?
5. Max range of all American nuclear rockets?
Since I cannot expose myself, all info must be avaiable for free from the movie preview.
Thanks.
1. What is the max speed of American tanks?
2. What type of ammonition and personnel in each tank?
3. How many airplanes and their ammo can be stored on each carrier?
4. Type of communications between American airplanes and NATO?
5. Max range of all American nuclear rockets?
Since I cannot expose myself, all info must be avaiable for free from the movie preview.
Thanks.
stester
5 Aug 2009 23:34
LOL, the reviewer I know gets as upset as you all do at SS, this person also submit and get rejected for reasons that I hear cuss words over. I complain just like you do for the dumb stuff I see, and if falls on deaf ears....they don't listen to the reviewers and they disagree with each other.
LiveFireMedia
6 Aug 2009 14:43
Wideweb, having been active duty military myself, and now working as a military/war correspondent, I can tell you that most of those types of numbers are easily available from the military itself - their manuals are, believe it or not, freely available. Actually, you can find out most of that kind of thing on Wikipedia. The sort of thing that is OPSEC nowadays has more to do with what kinds of countermeasures we use to defeat IED's and such - and those of us who regularly embed with US forces know better than to film those things to begin with. Even if we did, however, it's unlikely the footage would make it home with us, since normally it gets reviewed by a public affairs person before we redeploy.
This thread has gotten somewhat off track - my original point was that all photos and video http://people.uwec.edu/koroghcm/public_domain.htm (military or otherwise) in the course of their duties are considered public domain.
Along with that, when a journalist is embedded with the U.S. military, we are specifically informed that it isn't necessary to obtain written release from every soldier, sailor, airman, or Marine you film - though if one does not want to be filmed and tells you so, you must honor their request. In effect, you receive a blanket release when you begin the embed and that's sufficient.
I was more specifically wondering about a color guard doing their thing at an official function - these are active duty personnel in a public (parade) setting, so I'd be inclined to believe that I'm not required to secure a release from them to use video of them in a commercial work. That's my question.
This thread has gotten somewhat off track - my original point was that all photos and video http://people.uwec.edu/koroghcm/public_domain.htm (military or otherwise) in the course of their duties are considered public domain.
Along with that, when a journalist is embedded with the U.S. military, we are specifically informed that it isn't necessary to obtain written release from every soldier, sailor, airman, or Marine you film - though if one does not want to be filmed and tells you so, you must honor their request. In effect, you receive a blanket release when you begin the embed and that's sufficient.
I was more specifically wondering about a color guard doing their thing at an official function - these are active duty personnel in a public (parade) setting, so I'd be inclined to believe that I'm not required to secure a release from them to use video of them in a commercial work. That's my question.