Video Performance Rights
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 1998
It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 21205
interpreted = N
texte = Just in case anyone doesn't understand video performance licensing, let me cleara few things up:1) When you buy a training video (or theatrical movie), you are onlypurchasing a specific performance right. With a home video, you have purchasedthe right to watch it at home with your family and friends, not with everyone inyour college dorm common room. With a training video, you have (typically) onlypurchased the right to display it to yourself and your employees. Youspecifically cannot show the video to the public, whether or not you chargeadmission. You do not own the video, you own specific performance rights (whichcan be rescinded).2) If Company A buys a video, of any price (no matter how extravagant), it isillegal to make a copy and sell that copy to Company B ( no matter how cheaplyit 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 orloan, but only if the original copy is transferred (i.e. you cannot make a copyfor yourself and then sell the original). The specific video license canprohibit any transfer without the permission of the owner of the video. In facteach copy can be tagged with a unique number, so that any copies can be tracedback 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 forprofessional training.Required Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer, but I have had lots of experience withpublic performance video rights. Oddly enough, the software industry uses manyof these same clauses in their own contracts. Read a license agreementsometime, you might learn something;)
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Just in case anyone doesn't understand video performance licensing, let me cleara few things up:1) When you buy a training video (or theatrical movie), you are onlypurchasing a specific performance right. With a home video, you have purchasedthe right to watch it at home with your family and friends, not with everyone inyour college dorm common room. With a training video, you have (typically) onlypurchased the right to display it to yourself and your employees. Youspecifically cannot show the video to the public, whether or not you chargeadmission. You do not own the video, you own specific performance rights (whichcan be rescinded).2) If Company A buys a video, of any price (no matter how extravagant), it isillegal to make a copy and sell that copy to Company B ( no matter how cheaplyit 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 orloan, but only if the original copy is transferred (i.e. you cannot make a copyfor yourself and then sell the original). The specific video license canprohibit any transfer without the permission of the owner of the video. In facteach copy can be tagged with a unique number, so that any copies can be tracedback 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 forprofessional training.Required Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer, but I have had lots of experience withpublic performance video rights. Oddly enough, the software industry uses manyof these same clauses in their own contracts. Read a license agreementsometime, you might learn something;)
jpeacock@univpress.com
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