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05-12-2014, 07:50 PM
From Filmmakers to Farmers, Everyone Is Lobbying for Drones
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Drone aircraft photography won an Academy Award (http://www.flying-cam.com/en/news.php) this year for technical achievement and is increasingly beckoning Hollywood studios seeking dramatic aerial footage at low cost.
There's just one holdup: it's illegal in the U.S.
The regulatory uncertainty over commercial unmanned aircraft flights has led movie makers to join a wave of sometimes competing interest groups trying to influence U.S. lawmakers and regulators. Drone regulation was among many issues the Motion Picture Association of America (https://hameed.nwar.uk/vb/quote/0172774D:US?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=) lobbied on in 2012 and 2013, at a total cost of $4.11 million.
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Drone aircraft photography won an Academy Award (http://www.flying-cam.com/en/news.php) this year for technical achievement and is increasingly beckoning Hollywood studios seeking dramatic aerial footage at low cost.
There's just one holdup: it's illegal in the U.S.
The regulatory uncertainty over commercial unmanned aircraft flights has led movie makers to join a wave of sometimes competing interest groups trying to influence U.S. lawmakers and regulators. Drone regulation was among many issues the Motion Picture Association of America (https://hameed.nwar.uk/vb/quote/0172774D:US?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=) lobbied on in 2012 and 2013, at a total cost of $4.11 million.
"I would say it's a priority for all the major studios," Kate Bedingfield, a spokeswoman for the Washington-based trade group, said in an interview. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/05/12/drone-lobbying/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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