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Originally Posted by Sunny Day
Many are old TV shows, of music clips of 50's & 60's musicians. Unless a TV network specifically refiled again for copyright, before the copyright expired they are "Public Domain."
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Copyright term is life of the author plus seventy years, so nothing from the fifties and sixties has expired just yet. Those will be expiring in coming decades, though.
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There is also the "Fair Use' Doctrine. If I want to download all the Hitler parodies off YouTube, I have a legal right. They are all from the copyrighted movie "Downfall." But they fall under parody, satire and fair use.
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You're a bit confused. You can use pictures of Hitler in order to create your own parody of him. You cannot steal someone else's work product just because THEIR work is parody or satire. For example, Hustler contains a lot of parody and satire. That doesn't mean you can make bootleg copies of their magazines and films just because they contain satire. What you can do is you can create your own work of satire that is a parody of Hustler. If you are creating a parody OF Hustler, you can use a picture of Larry Flynt, just as they can use a picture of Falwell to parody Falwell. In other words, you can borrow a bit to CREATE a satire OF what you're borrowing from. You can not steal a work of satire any more than you can steal any other work.
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