Simplified licensing offers significant benefits for content creators, educators, businesses, and filmmakers, allowing for easier and more flexible use of media assets. Buyout Footage offers two types of licensing models based on the source of the footage itself.
Government-produced archival films and other published works that are no longer under copyright protection in the United States are licensed as public domain royalty-free for editorial use with no releases attached.
Proprietary film and video content is licensed for single-project editorial use for all media, worldwide, in perpetuity, with no releases attached.
There are 3rd party rights issues to be aware of that have nothing to do with copyright. These include rights of privacy and publicity which are typically associated with commercial exploitation - such as advertising for products or services. For more information, please review our Public Domain Usage Guidelines