A student at my school was asked by the Head of English to create a series of videos aimed at promoting reading amongst boys.

He created a brilliant James Bond video, complete with white-dot/gunbarrel introduction and theme tune.

Having cleared the cast against our "do not use images of this student online" list I then had to worry about copyright infringement. A couple of short (~2 seconds) clips had been used (which I was told could be classed as 'incidental') and around 90 seconds of music.

Having fired off emails to the movie studio that holds the copyright (MGM) I waited. And waited. And waited.

Finally, the Sunday Sun decided to post an edited version on their YouTube channel and to embed this as part of their site (and, presumably, to publish the story in the print version although I can't confrm that). Interestingly, this cut down version had only 30 seconds of the soundtrack which I can only presume is for legal reasons.

So, I stuck that on the front page of the website instead, and hoped that I could deflect any flak in the sunday Sun's direction. I am not certain that I am on a solid legal footing doing that, but in the 3 minutes since the front page update I've no threatening emails from the MPAA...