that's awesome. I love the OP's attitude : "How do I feel about this? Great :) If not me, at least my code made it to a 3 second clip in a Hollywood Movie :) ". It kind of makes me angry for him though that they didn't even bother to give him a credit or ask him if they could use it in anyway. The least anybody can do is give credit where credits due when using open source libs.
If they should credit everyone that did something that's used as a backdrop for a few seconds in a movie, they'd have time for little else. The guy who did a mural the main character walks by also doesn't get a credit.
Actually - that depends. Artists have sued (and successfully settled in some cases) for their artwork appearing as the background of other productions.
Yeah artists seem to do it all the time. They also often get indignant at the merest suggestion that they might want to agree for someone to use their work for free.
The difference is, of course, that writing code is joy so no wonder people will gladly do it and give the results away, whereas creating art is unpleasant, tiresome work, so it's an insult to suggest anyone would do it for reasons other than money.
Showing the code is not the same as open source. I get that you were joking, but it's a critical distinction. Unless otherwise stated, you should not assume that you have a license to use whatever code you find floating around on the Internet. Public domain is not the default when no licence is specified.
You realize that the source they used wasn't originally released with a license and thus they can't neither legally use the code or release it themselves
If it was released without a license, then in the USA (and all other parties to the Berne Convention), it is automatically copyrighted and all copyrights are reserved by the author.
The author appears to be doing his analysis off of a YouTube trailer of the movie which hasn't been released yet. As such how could anyone possibly know if his name will appear in the credits or not? For all we know it could.
And for all we know, it could be removed in further post-production now that he posted about it. I'd hate for that to be the case though, because this is pretty sweet!
