> This is about a government created footage from a surveillance camera. Copyright, or any other notion of imaginary property, most certainly does not apply.

That is incorrect. Copyright generally does not attach to works created by federal government agencies. The same is not true for works created by state and other sub-national government entities.

Harvard has an online resource center where you can learn more about this.

See https://copyright.lib.harvard.edu/states/

I do think it’s true that this particular footage is in the public domain.

>It's essentially a public record, and FOIA likely does apply (as noted by one tiny comment).

FOIA does not apply to MWAA records. MWAA has its own access to public records policy that applies to its records. I have the unfortunate privilege of being a quasi-expert at dealing with MWAA and its records. I am one of three people to have ever appealed a MWAA Freedom of Information Policy all the way to arbitration.

(Bizarrely, binding arbitration is a requester’s final recourse. Unlike every other government entity that I know of, litigation is not an option if you think MWAA has not followed their Freedom of Information Policy.)

See https://www.mwaa.com/sites/mwaa.com/files/legacyfiles/freedo...