An actress using clips from an unreleased movie for her acting reel is transformative and doesn't harm the market for that film, a California federal judge has ruled. for using clips from the movie on her demo reel without permission. The actress Jessica Taylor Haid hired L.A. MediaWorks to edit her reel and the company removed watermarks from the clips, which prompted claims for copyright infringement and violations of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
U.S. District Judge Percy Anderson on Friday granted summary judgment in Haid's favor. While Anderson found the nature of the copyrighted work favored Bain, the rest of the fair use factors weighed in favor of Haid: it's transformative, uses a limited portion of the film and doesn't substantially harm the market for"Haid’s reel is transformative," finds Anderson.
With regard to the watermark issue, Anderson found Bain failed to establish that Haid is liable for LA Media's removal of the mark or that the actress acted with the requisite knowledge to sustain such a claim under the DMCA.
If she has followed all security protocols for online display of her reel with encryption passwords. The director or production can’t do anything about it.
If the actress wasn't going to profit from the film, it's fair use. And really this case could be settled out of the court.
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How exactly does this director think the actress is suppose to show her ability if the few films etc can’t even be used even a bit. This is going to help those struggling actors/actresses with job hunting big time.
Nobody has seen 'nowhere land' so yeah no harm no foul.
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