Re: Who owns raw footage?

When a client comes to us to produce a project, we quote a price - for a finished project. The client gets a finished tape, or disc, or file, whatever, and that's it. Anything that our company acquires, makes, films, records, etc. during the production process belongs to us, not our client. If you buy a car from Ford, you don't have a right to the machinery Ford used to make the car.

On the other hand, the client paid for the finished project. It's theirs to do with as they see fit.