You Don’t Have to Use AI in Your Film, But Can You Prove You Didn’t?
In fact, the professional delivery process is becoming a paperwork nightmare. I can tell you that by the time you reach picture lock and final delivery, you are exhausted.
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In fact, the professional delivery process is becoming a paperwork nightmare.
I can tell you that by the time you reach picture lock and final delivery, you are exhausted.
The last thing I want to do after a long shoot and locking picture is more paperwork for production attorneys.
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In fact, the professional delivery process is becoming a paperwork nightmare. I can tell you that by the time you reach picture lock and final delivery, you are exhausted. The last thing I want to do after a long shoot and locking picture is more paperwork for production attorneys.
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- Then, after months or years of pushing an indie film uphill, a distributor's legal counsel asks one of the most critical questions in the entertainment business:
- Can you prove you have the legal right to sell every single frame of this project?
- Not because I can't do it, but it's a Herculean task, and yet it determines whether your movie ever sees an audience.
- Believe me, making an independent film and legally delivering a film are two entirely different skill sets.
- I just want to dump all of this in our production attorney's lap, but I can't just do that.
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I've spent most of my professional life writing and producing movies. By the time I'm done, my screenplays have survived fifty revisions. Temp music had to be replaced with licensed songs.
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