Sessions

We will be running five sessions on the day:

• 10am-noon Q&A Session: Licensing stills and footage: what you need to know
• 2:30-4:30pm Round table discussions on four topics, led by footage industry experts

Roundtable discussions 2:30-4:30pm

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The ACSIL roundtables will provide access to footage industry experts. Small group discussions will focus on the needs of the participants and the roundtable wrap-up will present highlights from these lively conversations.

Registration is not required: you can drop in for as long or short a time as you want. Each session will last 30 minutes, take up to 10 people and will be run twice (at 2:30pm and 3:15pm). Catch the highlights in the wrap-up at 4pm.

Footage Research, Archives and Production

How do you use footage and stills? Where to start? YouTube, alternative sources, budgeting, scheduling, organizing. Isn’t everything online? How to work with archives.

Industry Experts


• Amanda Huntley: owner of Huntley Film Archives, one of the largest independent film libraries in the UK.
• Scott Norman: Content Manager for NBC News Archives, a preeminent archive of broadcast news.
• Judy Aley, freelance visual researcher for film and television

Rights and Clearances

What to clear, when to clear, how to clear, deal structures.

Industry Experts


• Cathy Carapella: Vice President, Global ImageWorks, an independent stock footage library with an active Film Research & Rights Clearance department.
• Chris Robertson: rights and clearance specialist.

Legal

How, what and where of E&O insurance, fair use, duration of copyright, public domain, creative commons, production insurance, parody, case law.

Industry Experts


• Nancy Wolff: partner with Cowan DeBaets Abrahams & Sheppard LLP, specializing in copyright, trademark and digital media law.
• Neil Rossini, partner with Franklin, Weinrib, Rudell & Vassallo, P.C., specializing in clearances for broadcast, publication, live theater and online distribution.

Content Management

How to manage a corporate archive, monetizing what you have, metadata, digitizing.

Industry Experts


• Kevin Schaff: CEO and founder of T3Media (formerly Thought Equity Motion), a cloud-based storage, access and licensing platform for enterprise-scale video libraries
• Domenick Propati: Global COO for UK advertising production agency Splash Worldwide and owner of the online search engine and research tool Footage.net.


The roundtable discussions are organized by Jessica Berman-Bogdan, President and founder of Global ImageWorks, an independent stock footage library with an active Film Research & Rights Clearance department.