My location: United Kingdom
I recently visited Ukraine and wish to create a sort of amateur documentary on Russia’s war crimes and actions during the initial invasion. I have footage of me interviewing villagers etc, but I wish to edit my video with clips of the initial invasion taken from various news sites, CCTV cams etc.
The problem, is the copyright issue, these clips of combat footage (some Russian some Ukrainian) are littered with various water marks, I have a clip for example from a news site of Russians taking out cameras on the road and it is covered with Associated Press’s logo.
I have a clip of Putin announcing the initial invasion, and it is taken directly from the BBC (many other news companies have used this)
I also have CCTV footage and dash-cam footage, some of it is watermarked some of it isn’t.
I essentially want to edit these and incorporate snippets of them into my video. I presume in the case of the BBC Putin video, that they don’t own it and therefore I’m allowed to use it? (I don’t presume actually, but it’s what I wish was the case lol) What would happen if I removed the water marks and used the footage? What would happen if I left them in?
I will probably monetise the content also, as I wish to do this as a side job if possible in the future, but this is my first time doing anything like this and copyright is really limiting what I can do.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks.