Hi! I'm a producer for WAVE News in Louisville working on a documentary on Rudell Stitch. His son gave me videos of his fights from the 1958-1960. He has no idea where they came from. I am trying to track down the owner so I can get copyright permission to use them in the doc. I cannot find any info on who owns them and won't be able to use them otherwise. Does anyone on here know where I can look? The promoter at the time was William H. King. The fights at the Exposition Center in Louisville were also put on by the International Boxing Club which is now closed. I need help! His family wants these videos shown to the world but so far, we can't do that.
Hi Natalia! I'd recommend you repost this same thread in the Classic Forum, where it will probably get more traction as there are lots of long-time historians of the sport posting regularly in there. https://www.boxingforum24.com/forums/classic-boxing-forum.12/
You might also try and get into contact with this channel. They upscale and upload lots of old fights, might be able to help you out. https://www.youtube.com/@LegendsofBoxinginColor This content is protected
I doubt anyone still owns the copyrights to those fights. There's lots of fights from that era around in sites like youtube and if anyone own the rights and didn't want them there they would have been taken down. I have one if his fights with Gaspar Ortega wouldn't mind seeing more of him.
Someone has to file those copyright claims, which I doubt anyone would bother to do for fights from the 60s. Plenty of HBO and SHO fights on YouTube today. Uploading on YouTube is one thing, doing a documentary is another. They could get into serious legal trouble.
Low but not zero probability that somebody still owns them and might decide to be petty to a litigious degree about unauthorized use. She's doing right by exercising some due diligence here.
