Prometheus77
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It's a fact that the arvizo rebuttal video was not shown on the fox documentary and that was down to hamid refusing to hand over his copy. Hamid allowed some of 'his' footage to be shown, eg the bashir excerpts, but withheld what would probably be the most important evidence that mj was innocent of anything untoward with gavin. It's tragic in retrospect.
Yes, I do notice that it's not on there. But maybe it was decided that it was best to keep them out of it. They have filmed the footage in '03. They could simply have filmed it again, should Hamid refuse to hand over the footage... it's not like they died or moved to the moon after it was filmed. But at the time they tried to keep the Arvizo family out of it. Maybe that thinking was a mistake, but I doubt that it had much to do with Hamid.
There seems to be some controversy as to whether bashir ahd the right to do that - whatever, mj's lawyers failed him bigtime over that doc but in any case it's a different example as the tv company clearly had copyright.
True. Michael alluded to that in LA at the fan club party. But had there been a strongly worded contract, that leaves no loopholes, I doubt that Bashir would have risked a lawsuit for breaching the contract. And it's not really that much of a difference. It shows that his people (his lawyers or whoever responsible) most likely were sleeping when they wrote up the contracts.
With hamid, i would need to know what his contract actually said - he was used alot, as you seem to be aware of, and i find it totally bizarre that mj would allow his personal videographer all the rights and copyrights over material he shoots of mj and his family.
Like I said, I agree, and for me it goes against everything that I consider to be right and just. People get paid to do their work and that should be the end of it. But I do not know what kind of contract Hamid had. Obviously though he had one that allowed him to retain copyrights. Otherwise he wouldn't have claimed so in his suit, as it is really easy to prove, should he be misrepresenting the truth.