Copyright and permissions for footage
Due to the cost of an entry ticket into Beamish, I have considered using stock footage instead of getting the footage myself. For this, I sourced a clip from the BFI which included the city of Sunderland trams from 1904. I spoke with some one from the BFI who was able to supply me with their copyright policy and fair use of the video clip. This was as follows: " Several exceptions allow copyright works to be used for educational purposes, such as: the copying of works in any medium as long as the use is solely to illustrate a point, it is not done for commercial purposes, it is accompanied by a sufficient acknowledgement, and the use is fair dealing. This means minor uses, such as displaying a few lines of poetry on an interactive whiteboard, are permitted, but uses which would undermine sales of teaching materials are not performing, playing or showing copyright works in a school, university or other educational establishment for educational purposes. However, it only applies if ...