Question from a Resolve teacher: use of BMD footage.

Hello!

I've been teaching DaVinci Resolve for plenty of years, and I'm about to start recording and selling my own online courses.

Is it OK to use the footage BMD offers? I mean: the footage found in the tranning web-site, the test footage found in the cameras web-site, etc..

Is it legal that I use that media to record and sell my courses?

Is it legal to download those files, and send them to the students from my own online storage?

Of course, the source would be identified.

In the past, I contacted BMD to ask this when I do live workshops (both online and on site), and they said yes.

I'm looking for confirmation that this is OK also in recorded tutorials, and I'm not sure where to ask.

Any ideas?

Thank you all!

Flavio G. García

I see folks using that footage in their YouTube videos, so that's not a definitive answer, but it's maybe reason to hope for a yes.

Yes, I also know other people who produce and sell tutorials use BMD's footage.

Just wondering if it's OK, officially, to do so.

Would be nice, since I convince most of my students to buy the Studio version...



I also shot my own footage for my workshops, but having also those other files is super helpful.

Up - Curious to know if this is allowed.

If this footage is made publicly available for training by BMD and you are not selling the footage itself, I don’t see why it could be a problem. Especially if you also provide direct link to BMD materials.

Yes, Hendrick. That's what I'm hoping.

One aspect is: to simplify the download for the students who buy my course, I would send them the files myself (of course promoting and mentioning the official site). This is: the students would download the files from me.

Reason for this: if you sell to a big number of students, it's tricky to make them download from somewhere else. Also, the official trainning site might be updated or changed some time, and that would be very problematic (wrong links, wrong download, etc..)

I would be careful with this.
For example the tutorial footage called "Age of Airplanes" is from a high-end documentary. So while BMD got a license to bundle it with their own training material, this very likely does not include you to offer it as a download on your own.

So while using the footage in a screen-recorded course itself or in Youtube tutorials is likely covered, distributing the footage through your own server isn't.

Which is why I am trying to get an official answer.

It all depends on how the footage is licensed, more than if the download comes from their official site, or from my Google Drive, I would say.

As I said: in the past I asked if I could use and send this footage in my live/on-site workshops, and I was told it was totally fine, and was encouraged to do it.

We'll see if someone says something!