# Home Videos and the News

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-videos-and-the-news/81622>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [September 14, 2001, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-videos-and-the-news/81622 "2001-09-14T16:28:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tretiak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a88e57/32.png) [@Tretiak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tretiak)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2001, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-videos-and-the-news/81622/1 "2001-09-14T16:28:04Z")

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I assume whenever they show a home video of the tragedy with the word “Exclusive” it means that the network paid for the exclusive rights to the video. Would you feel comfortable making a buck off this that way? I am not condemning those who did, because for all I know they took that money and donated it to the Red Cross. Of course I also would be wary of someone else being able ot make a buck off of it. What are the rights of theose who took the video (apart from making it available to investigators)? I remember a few years ago there was something about the Zapruder film rights finally being settled. I dunno, my rational detached sitting at my desk thinking is that I would give the video to all the news outlets.