I had a short promotional video (5 minutes) made and posted on my website. It was professionally edited at my own expense, and contains a montage of sound bite clips of me talking from an hour long interview video that originally appeared on a cable show.Now the interviewer has discovered my website, and is demanding that I have it re-edited to include at least 25% footage of the interviewer asking me questions, inclusion of the show credits segment, and other changes.I have posted a credit with a link to her website, but she says this is not sufficient, and is threatening legal action.Don't I have any fair use rights to use sound bites of my own speech for my promotion without the interviewer's creative control?Thanks for any help.
Yes, they need a better excuse. I am really getting sick of the tactics which people use to avoid talking about or explaining an issue. One of the tactics used is to say, You are taking that out of context, and another is to say that someone is a racist. These two things are used repeatedly to kill discussion. Sharpton and Jackson are both good for this. It's irritating and I wish that just once they would give a straight answer when defending these racist comments which were made by Wright.
No, the owner of the content is the original creator of that content. The fact that you happen to be in that video footage doesn't give you any commercial rights unless specified otherwise, but my guess is that you signed a release for that footage to be used exclusively by the interviewer. They are being kind to you by not suing you and only demanding that you include some extra footage to provide more context.
