The local school system was showing Disney movies on DVD's to elementary classes as prizes when they had done good. They had to stop when Disney threatened the entire school system with legal action. Tim Kemp mike@pddoc.com wrote: >It is likely an infringement of the rights of the copyright owner. >Copyright reserves certain rights for the owner of the copyright. For >movies, one of these rights is the right to "perform the copyrighted work >publicly." It doesn't matter if it's for a profit or not. >
Disney are reknowned for that! Lionel Bart productions threatened to sue the school I was Chair of Governors of for singing some songs from Oliver in a school concert. It came to nothing in the end, but was very upsetting for everyone. Hospitals are not allowed to show films to patients either Liz >From: Tim Kemp <tkemp@mindspring.com> >Reply-To: COPYRIGHT-L@rootsweb.com >To: COPYRIGHT-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [COPYRIGHT] movies >Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 17:33:51 -0400 > >The local school system was showing Disney movies on DVD's to elementary >classes as prizes when they had done good. They had to stop when Disney >threatened the entire school system with legal action. > >Tim Kemp > >mike@pddoc.com wrote: > >>It is likely an infringement of the rights of the copyright owner. >>Copyright reserves certain rights for the owner of the copyright. For >>movies, one of these rights is the right to "perform the copyrighted work >>publicly." It doesn't matter if it's for a profit or not. >> > > >==== COPYRIGHT Mailing List ==== >To unsubscribe from this list click on >mailto:COPYRIGHT-L-request@rootsweb.com?subject=unsubscribe (list mode) or >mailto:COPYRIGHT-D-request@rootsweb.com?subject=unsubscribe (digest mode) >Contact COPYRIGHT-admin@rootsweb.com for list related problems. For the >COPYRIGHT-L archives, go to >http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/copyright. > >============================== >Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the >last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: >http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx >