Here's another case of a filmmaker wanting a large sum for the right to show
films in a classroom - Zipporah Films. In this case I was merely purchasing a
personal copy but they saw my university email address. Comments?
Laura J. Ruede, MLS
Assistant Music/Media Librarian; Van Cliburn Archivis
Here's the deal, Laura
Zipporah (and many others) are not charging high prices because you're
showing stuff in the classroom--they're charging these prices primarily
(exclusively) because they're selling to institutions and they feel those
are the prices the market will bear, including, in Zippora
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Here's the deal, Laura
Zipporah (and many others) are not charging high prices because you're
showing stuff in the classroom--they're chargi
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Here's the deal, Laura
Zipporah (and many others) are not charging high prices because you're
showing stuff in the cl
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But, they're still propagating misinformation: "[T]he purchase price of
this film for colleges and universities is our list educational price of
$400, which includes public performance rights /so it can be screened in
classrooms/." It's either done with a very incomplete understanding of
the
This is true. My money is on the misunderstanding of copyright law. Someone
could send them a copy of Section 108. Not sure how you would word it, but
something like "We have decided to make our film available to individuals at
a lower cost but we need to maintain a higher price to institutions to
I have tried on a number of occasions to send correcting information re:
Face-to-Face Teaching and 108, in a very simple, straightforward way,
and have never noticed any effect or change in the misinformation being
disseminated. This makes me think that distributors either can't be
bothered, o
Now hold on, some of us, like us Canadians, need those seven words.
We've been paying those extra bucks since 16mm ceased to be commonly
used in the classroom.
Seems to me that the wording of Zipporah comes from mixing Canadian and
US law. End-result
is angering all of you Americans, though
Great point Susan! Those seven words have value IF they are followed
with two more: "in Canada". Based on my experiences with distributors
who make a habit of such misleading pronouncements, I sincerely doubt
that they are considering the two different markets. Most simply insist
that any f
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