Where to get free video content?

Factual Questions
1

Hullo,

I am wondering where to get free video content, that I can distribute freely (for non-commercial reasons). I want to provide, on my website, videos encoded to work with my cellphone, for other users of this phone.

I have sent a mail to Apple asking if I can rip off all their trailers :wink: but I am guessing they are going to say no, and anyhow, .mov is in this case a hard format to work with.

Does anyone know the legality of distributing trailers? I am thinking who can it hurt, they are adverts no? All the major distributors are putting out their trailers through Apple anyhow, so much of it will, I guess, hang on them. I thought of student filmmakers, but that is a little too much effort, I don’t want to put all my time into this.

Anyone know of any other free, distributable video sources?

2

appernently parody laws permit you to do anything as long as you make it clearly a joke, but someone may still sue you so be careful

3

Probably in the newsgroups. You can find free anything in the multimedia newsgroups. They have a bit of anything. You’d have to learn how to use them. Search the net for how to use newsgroups.