Copyright in our Documentary:

 One of the main additions of desktop documentary is the use of pre-existing footage out there already. We of course 'mimicked' this with some of the self-filmed footage from both the participants, but we still did use clips that wasn't ours in the opening sequence and elsewhere. To avoid the issue of copyright we would claim everything we used was fair use due to the fact it is already out there on Youtube and the footage shown was only small segments from the full videos.

One of the other issues that could come up with copyright is the use of the song 'The Internet is for Porn' from the musical Avenue Q. To avoid the issue of using the actual song, we used a cover that was recorded on Youtube and played this, as if it was the song on Spotify. There may still be an issue with the song being played, but as we technically didn't use the actual song itself, we should be okay in this sense.

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