Short-form pages cut from public domain archive film, run under the same name.
Clipping for creators is the service. Alongside it, Leo Clips Cars runs a small number of its own short-form pages built entirely from public domain archive film: industrial and educational reels, newsreels, screen advertising and government films, mostly from the 1930s to the 1960s.
The same editing work that makes a good clip out of a creator's video makes a good clip out of a seventy-year-old training film. These pages are where the craft gets practised and tested on material that belongs to no one, which means a format can be tried without spending a client's channel to find out whether it works.
There is no creator to ask. The films are out of copyright or were never copyrighted, so nobody holds the rights we would otherwise be asking permission for. Everything on the for creators page still applies to creator work: clips edited from a living creator's videos are published with that creator's written permission, obtained first, and this is a separate thing rather than an exception to it.
We also do not claim the films. A public domain film stays public domain. What belongs to us is the edit: the selection, the captions, the framing and the context written around it.
Each item is checked on its own before anything is cut from it, and it has to land on one of three grounds:
Copyright has expired. The line moves forward by one year every January.
Works produced by federal agencies are not subject to copyright under 17 U.S.C. §105. This covers military training films, NASA and other agency productions, and the National Archives' own material.
Copyright then ran for 28 years and had to be renewed to continue. Most sponsored, industrial and educational reels never were, which puts them in the public domain. Renewal records are public and searchable, and a film is treated as cleared only when the check has actually been done.
A copyright notice printed on a pre-1964 American film means nothing on its own if the renewal was never filed. A music score can be a separately owned work even when the film around it is free. A collection held by an archive is not automatically public domain, because archives also hold donated material under the donor's terms. Each of those is checked per film rather than assumed from the collection it sits in.
Email leoclipscars@gmail.com with the post and what right you believe is affected. It will be reviewed and, where appropriate, taken down. That is the same process described in the terms of service, and it applies here exactly as it does to creator clips.