Video Performance Rights

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1998


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 21205
interpreted = N
texte = Just in case anyone doesn't understand video performance licensing, let me clear a few things up:1) When you buy a training video (or theatrical movie), you are only purchasing a specific performance right. With a home video, you have purchased the right to watch it at home with your family and friends, not with everyone in your college dorm common room. With a training video, you have (typically) only purchased the right to display it to yourself and your employees. You specifically cannot show the video to the public, whether or not you charge admission. You do not own the video, you own specific performance rights (which can be rescinded).2) If Company A buys a video, of any price (no matter how extravagant), it is illegal to make a copy and sell that copy to Company B ( no matter how cheaply it is sold), or keep the copy and sell the original.3) In general, Company A can transfer a video to Company B, either for sale or loan, but only if the original copy is transferred (i.e. you cannot make a copy for yourself and then sell the original). The specific video license can prohibit any transfer without the permission of the owner of the video. In fact each copy can be tagged with a unique number, so that any copies can be traced back to the original purchaser.4) Professional training videos can typically cost several thousand dollars. $799 is cheap for 16 hours of training videos. And $399 is a pittance for professional training.Required Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer, but I have had lots of experience with public performance video rights. Oddly enough, the software industry uses many of these same clauses in their own contracts. Read a license agreement sometime, you might learn something;) Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Video Performance Rights (jpeacock@univpress.com 1998)
Just in case anyone doesn't understand video performance licensing, let me clear a few things up:1) When you buy a training video (or theatrical movie), you are only purchasing a specific performance right. With a home video, you have purchased the right to watch it at home with your family and friends, not with everyone in your college dorm common room. With a training video, you have (typically) only purchased the right to display it to yourself and your employees. You specifically cannot show the video to the public, whether or not you charge admission. You do not own the video, you own specific performance rights (which can be rescinded).2) If Company A buys a video, of any price (no matter how extravagant), it is illegal to make a copy and sell that copy to Company B ( no matter how cheaply it is sold), or keep the copy and sell the original.3) In general, Company A can transfer a video to Company B, either for sale or loan, but only if the original copy is transferred (i.e. you cannot make a copy for yourself and then sell the original). The specific video license can prohibit any transfer without the permission of the owner of the video. In fact each copy can be tagged with a unique number, so that any copies can be traced back to the original purchaser.4) Professional training videos can typically cost several thousand dollars. $799 is cheap for 16 hours of training videos. And $399 is a pittance for professional training.Required Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer, but I have had lots of experience with public performance video rights. Oddly enough, the software industry uses many of these same clauses in their own contracts. Read a license agreement sometime, you might learn something;) jpeacock@univpress.com

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