So I have done a video showing a local business, which they can have for free - I did it because I wanted to, but of course we agreed they can use it if they want on social media/website if they like it enough!
Question is - would you upload it (to YouTube) with:
a) your intro/logo at the start like in my other videos?
b) leave off the logo, but keep in the subscribe/notification graphics like in my other videos?
c) upload it with just the video as is, i.e. no logo, no sub/like graphics?
Paul.
The answer will depend on why you’re uploading it to YouTube 
What’s main the aim / objective of uploading the video?
It’s where I upload them all to… where (I assume) anyone who watches any of mine goes to.
The objective was I thought the place would be interesting to film and I hope it’s a little different to the usual fare, but because I’ve met the chap who runs the business (and he was there when I flew) he said he’d probably put in on his website (and FB etc). If he was to use it would it be better linked to YT like all my stuff and with or without the crieria above?
There’s no gain in it for me (except people watching) though it might well benefit him (and naturally driving traffic back to my channel) which is partly why (most of us) put stuff on YT anyway…
If he wanted the video (as is - nothing in it relating to the author) to use then he can happily have it that way to.
I’d give him a clean copy of it, then stick the full blown version on YT and put a notice on it saying “Visit George’s second hand sausage shop” or whatever at the end.
personally I’d leave all your graphics in it for both your youtube and the business copy and if they want it without the graphics then that would be a £100 charge.
Any advertisements to drive traffic to your youtube channel is advisable. 
Id start higher and say ÂŁ500
Hahah, thanks for the replies guys - I’m not in it for the money - I just like flying!!!
Paul.
You might want to clarify matters with the CAA, who take a dim view of amateur/hobbyist pilots even appearing to make money from flying/ photography. Chum of mine flies a microlight out of Swansea, and a fellow amateur there got a hefty fine and his licence suspended for a year because he’d taken a member of his golf club (I’m not middle class, honest!) for s spin around Gower. This chum’s chum’s friend ran a caravan site on Gower, and took some aerial photos of it which he later used in a promotional brochure. He reimbursed the pilot the fine money, but couldn’t do anything about the year’s licence suspension.
Seemed very unfair to me, but the CAA’s view was that the pilot is responsible for what the aircraft, presumably including a drone, is used for, and they classed this as commercial activity, so the pilot was flying unlicenced. It was thought he’d been grassed by a fellow flying club member who had a beef with him. Nasty
No money being made - didn’t even ask for a fish for me dinner…
But you might be asked to *prove * that no money was made, or even expenses covered. I mean, it’s unlikely, but I’d want to cover myself for the eventuality.
Why? the only requirement is to have commercial insurance for the flight, and that only stands if you actually went out with the intention to sell the footage/images.
If someone asks me to buy an image that I took during a recreational flight, I’m fully within my right as copyright owner to sell my property.
Maybe you’re thinking about the rules pre 2020 before the rules changed after we left the EU.
Link ?
See @DeanoG60 reply
Yes this was in the noughties, before Brexit.
At the beginning of 2020, the rules for commercial drone flights changed a PFCO is no longer required, just commercial insurance is needed now if you intensionally go out to make money. If the original flight was recreational and someone offered to buy your images/footage afterwards then there is nothing stopping you from agreeing a price and selling them/it.
Rules were the same back then. If the intention of the flight was recreational at the time of the flight ( the whole flight ), then no commercial insurance required. If the intention was to take photos, video for any form of recompense then comercial insurance required. Even technically taking random B roll would be classed as commercial, as the intent was footage wich may bring in revenue.
But later revenue from recreational is permitted without insurance.
… and before drones!
Personally, I’d overlay my logo in a corner and have it there throughout the video. I was recently asked by a client for some footage from his wedding video as The Sun had asked to use some of it (the couple were in a wrestling ring in the grounds of the venue), first thing I did was overlay my logo.
Sod the logo chat … WHY are they in a wrestling ring?
This ^^^^^
A recreational flight cannot retrospectively become commercial.
Also, was the ring already at the venue (and, if so, why!?) or did they hire it in just for the wedding?
