FAIR USE Free Advice Man TV Interviews Part 1

Restored TV video documentation for educational and historical documentational purposes. Part 1 of 4. FAIR USE Why I deem FAIR USE is LEGALLY VALID in the case of this 4-part A/V documentation: Firstly, FAIR USE applies if: 1. the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes; { My use is not generating any profit at all, and I do not intend to sell these A/V items separately or as part of a Special Feature in a docu-drama motion picture DVD. Should a major film studio seek to make a docu-drama motion picture of me and seek to provide a Special Feature of actual TV interviews they would and should pay all due fees/royalties to any and all rightful copyright owners. Were that to change I would be obliged to accept charges.} 2. the nature of the copyrighted work; { These TV interviews are: a. About me! And so I consider that the TV company made profits at my expense, and without me they would not have made such profits. I did not receive any material remuneration for them on the part of the TV companies concerned. }. 3. amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and { In these instances I am not using the whole news program, but only that minor part of it which is about me and solely about who I am and what I do. } 4. the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work. { If said companies were to make a commercial audio-visual product, such as a Compilation Documentary of Human Interest Stories, and I would be given at least one courtesy copy and the right to separately document and display that story specifically about me, then I would provide only an excerpt of the A/V item and promote the sale of the DVD, or other A/V recorded format. Furthermore, this footage is at risk of being lost to history and I am serving the interests of documenting what I deem to be important historical facts about my life that are also about a national and international social and cultural legacy, as the first person in US history to engage in this Free Advice activity! Again, if these A/V recording were to be part of a Special Features in a DVD docu-drama movie about my life, I would only show an excerpt of them. Furthermore, at the time of these interviews I asked permission from the interviewer to have a copy for my own records and use, and verbal agreement was also reached that allowed me to use it for self-promotion, so long as I was not profiting from such! In effect, the price of my appearing was in exchange for certain usage rights. Last, but not least, these items are from over ten years ago and about me! Were I interviewed today I would do so on condition that after at least one year I would have the right to include them in an educational, historic documentation format, regardless of associated commercial use! }