Hello,
I've had thoughts of getting my Drone Pilots license, but for now I've just been flying for fun with my DJI inspire 1 and getting footage for my own benefit. This last weekend, I got some amazing footage of my city's local river near flood stage and I did some editing and posted it on facebook and YouTube. In 4 days, it has gotten over 200k views on facebook and shared over 6000 times. On YouTube, it's starting to get a lot more attention. I honestly hadn't had any thoughts of selling the rights to the footage, but I've been messaged by 3 different individuals asking to use it and also received a message from Storyful who wants to buy the exclusivity rights. I'd love to make some money off of this, but would that then make it for commercial purposes and therefore illegal since I don't have my Part 107? What if I got my license, would the footage be retroactively legal to sell? I'm not looking for any comments on how likely I would be to get caught. I want to follow the letter of the law. Any insight would be helpful. Here's the link to the video on YouTube.
Thanks!
I've had thoughts of getting my Drone Pilots license, but for now I've just been flying for fun with my DJI inspire 1 and getting footage for my own benefit. This last weekend, I got some amazing footage of my city's local river near flood stage and I did some editing and posted it on facebook and YouTube. In 4 days, it has gotten over 200k views on facebook and shared over 6000 times. On YouTube, it's starting to get a lot more attention. I honestly hadn't had any thoughts of selling the rights to the footage, but I've been messaged by 3 different individuals asking to use it and also received a message from Storyful who wants to buy the exclusivity rights. I'd love to make some money off of this, but would that then make it for commercial purposes and therefore illegal since I don't have my Part 107? What if I got my license, would the footage be retroactively legal to sell? I'm not looking for any comments on how likely I would be to get caught. I want to follow the letter of the law. Any insight would be helpful. Here's the link to the video on YouTube.
Thanks!