W. Niederhut Posted October 29, 2021 Share Posted October 29, 2021 I recently posted YouTube's JFK Revisited trailer on another forum, and I just noticed that it is "No Longer Available." Is YouTube now censoring any information about Oliver Stone's new documentary?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
W. Niederhut Posted October 29, 2021 Author Share Posted October 29, 2021 On further review, the only JFK Revisited trailer I can find on YouTube this morning is a German version. The English version was deleted some time during the past 12 hours, because I was just talking about it on my thread on another forum last night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James DiEugenio Posted October 29, 2021 Share Posted October 29, 2021 (edited) This is what happened. The Sixth Floor Museum complained to the distributor because of our use of the Z film without asking them. What not many people know is that the Zapruder family, after hiring a big time lawyer and going to arbitration, and then getting the ridiculous sum of 16 million, did something rather odd. After getting the payoff, they deeded the film to the Sixth Floor Museum. We reveal this and Doug Horne talks about it in the movie. Edited November 3, 2021 by James DiEugenio Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Carter Posted October 29, 2021 Share Posted October 29, 2021 2 hours ago, James DiEugenio said: This is what happened. The Sixth Floor Museum filed a You Tube complaint because of our use of the Z film without asking them. What not many people know is that the Zapruder family, after hiring a big time lawyer and going to arbitration, and then getting the ridiculous sum of 16 million, did something rather odd. After getting the payoff, they deeded the film to the Sixth Floor Museum. We reveal this and Doug Horne talks about it in the movie. Jim - might a licensing dispute with Sixth Floor affect the exhibition of the documentary? Usually film producers/distributors have their own legal teams working on clearances , so was it a decision to bypass Sixth Floor permission? (you don’t have to answer that 2nd question) I understand the issues of the Zapruder family getting “market value” for the film both in 1963 and 1999 - it is America after all - but the film was in fact “evidence” in a extremely high-profile murder investigation and so the official lazy acceptance of the film as “private property”, particularly during the 1960s, is rather baffling. After the latter day settlement, the film should have gone to the National Archives instead of Sixth Floor, and it is unclear why the Zapruder family got to make that call. Unlike the Archives, the Sixth Floor is not a neutral body and they should not be retaining copyright to the film. There should no longer be a copyright after the settlement. The problem, of course, is the proceeds of high licensing fees go to support a rather one-sided and, most here agree, factually incorrect presentation of events at the museum. Plus there is the negative role the museum has played in the past through policing informational displays in Dealey Plaza. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James DiEugenio Posted October 29, 2021 Share Posted October 29, 2021 There is a Fair Use demarcation between promotion and educational and critical studies. I think this is what the complaint was about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
W. Niederhut Posted October 29, 2021 Author Share Posted October 29, 2021 (edited) 14 hours ago, James DiEugenio said: There is a Fair Use demarcation between promotion and educational and critical studies. I think this is what the complaint was about. Well, it's reassuring to see that the Sixth Floor Museum is so invested in keeping the public informed about the history of JFK's assassination... 🤥 Perhaps they should rename it the National Allen Dulles Dealey Plaza Museum of Warren Commission Mythology. P.S. Didn't Oliver Stone pay someone (? Life magazine) in 1992 for the right to use the Zapruder film in JFK? Edited October 30, 2021 by W. Niederhut Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Bulman Posted October 30, 2021 Share Posted October 30, 2021 This leaves my overloaded memory grasping for another name. Who was the CIA agent, I think he was a "former" agent who spent a year or two in the late 80's working with the development team on The Lone Nut Oswald Did It All By Himself Museum? I do remember the defection/turning of Gary Mack. Maybe this is not such a surprise development. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James DiEugenio Posted October 30, 2021 Share Posted October 30, 2021 (edited) Back then, before the ARRB made their pitch for the film, Oliver had to make a rather large contribution to the Sixth Floor. And yes, there was a CIA agent who helped get the Sixth Floor organized and functioning. https://jfkfacts.org/cia-man-assisted-in-the-creation-of-the-sixth-floor-museum/ But the worst thing they did was to have Gary mack cooperate in the making of those two horrendous documentaries. Edited October 30, 2021 by James DiEugenio Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Bulman Posted October 30, 2021 Share Posted October 30, 2021 18 minutes ago, James DiEugenio said: Back then, before the ARRB made their pitch for the film, Oliver had to make a rather large contribution to the Sixth Floor. And yes, there was a CIA agent who helped get the Sixth Floor organized and functioning. https://jfkfacts.org/cia-man-assisted-in-the-creation-of-the-sixth-floor-museum/ But the worst thing they did was to have Gary mack cooperate in the making of those two horrendous documentaries. Yes, Charles Briggs. That's him, former Executive Director of the CIA. Number Three man in the chain of command. Just a little retirement project. Jeff has some nuggets buried on his site for future researchers. Like Leslie Sharps comments. If they dig past jmac. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benjamin Cole Posted October 30, 2021 Share Posted October 30, 2021 Egads. Funny how the breaks are always against Oliver Stone and his vital, insightful work on JFK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Bulman Posted October 30, 2021 Share Posted October 30, 2021 2 hours ago, Ron Bulman said: Yes, Charles Briggs. That's him, former Executive Director of the CIA. Number Three man in the chain of command. Just a little retirement project. Jeff has some nuggets buried on his site for future researchers. Like Leslie Sharps comments. If they dig past jmac. . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joseph McBride Posted October 30, 2021 Share Posted October 30, 2021 Jim, what is the US distributor for this documentary? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James DiEugenio Posted October 31, 2021 Share Posted October 31, 2021 Showtime. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandy Larsen Posted October 31, 2021 Share Posted October 31, 2021 (edited) Can anybody tell me if there will be a way to watch the documentary without having a subscription to Showtime. Can I watch it Pay-Per-View on Comcast? Or buy a DVD? I have Roku and NetFlix. Does that help? (I know... I am truly consumer TV illiterate.) Edited October 31, 2021 by Sandy Larsen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James DiEugenio Posted October 31, 2021 Share Posted October 31, 2021 Yes, I think there will be a way to do that. I think through Amazon, that is how I saw the Dick Gregory video. Later, you will be able to stream the four parter also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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