Jessica I send previews on request, or after filling a submission form on web-site. My experience is such that 99.5% or more understand what a Preview is, I'm interested in distributing and not worrying about legalities, working with trustworthy people. But these days of the global village, you cannot cheat so here is a true tale. I found out that there is a copy of "The Darien Dilemma" for sale on Amazon, as I'm the only one selling this film I asked them to take it off from the sales, as the vendor was some phony without a web-site. I let it go as it disappeared from their catalogue. Some months later I noticed a very prestigious university library has the film (WorldCat) so I asked how they got it, Amazon was the answer, so I told them it is a bootleg copy the university paid our catalogue price after paying once before to Amazon. Today I received a negative answer from a festival, I asked them to destroy the DVD the answer was "I will" That is what I will do from now on. Cheers
Nahum Laufer http://onedayafterpeace.com/index.php http://docsforeducation.com/ Sales Docs for Education Erez Laufer Films Holland st 10 Afulla 18371 Israel -----Original Message----- From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu [mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of videolib-requ...@lists.berkeley.edu Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2012 10:52 PM To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Subject: videolib Digest, Vol 57, Issue 29 Send videolib mailing list submissions to videolib@lists.berkeley.edu To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://calmail.berkeley.edu/manage/list/listinfo/video...@lists.berkeley.ed u or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to videolib-requ...@lists.berkeley.edu You can reach the person managing the list at videolib-ow...@lists.berkeley.edu When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of videolib digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: previews (Jessica Rosner) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2012 15:30:39 -0400 From: Jessica Rosner <maddux2...@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [Videolib] previews To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Message-ID: <cacre6m_k5j_irzim-pkejkcta8aoq6t23xspunxmmtpxn_p...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Nahum, Two things you really need to do (if you are not already doing so) DO NOT SEND an unsolicited preview. Send only to people who request them or who respond directly that they want to see the preview ( like a critic). If you send one out without some understanding than you are not protected. You should also always request the screener be returned. Does not mean it will be and I would not obsess on it but you need to make it clear that you have asked for it back or if you prefer you could ask them to confirm they will destroy it. On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 2:52 PM, nahum laufer <lauf...@netvision.net.il>wrote: > Two weeks ago Angel asked for advice if she can use 500 Preview DVDs > that Rhode Island IFF passed on to her library, I wrote my advice > privately by e-mail I did not get a response neither did I notice a > response from her to all the advice that appeared on this blog. > So I wrote a second e-mail asking Angel to send $ 500 to Erez Laufer > films as 2 of the DVDS were Preview DVDS I sent to RIIFF "The Darien > Dilemma" & "Rafting to Bombay", ($250 is the catalogue price for > Library use with Public Performance Rights) of course she can tell me > that she destroyed those DVDs, my advice was destroy all. > > I must remark, that these days the business of distributing films is > done by e-mails, it is a business of trust, I trust my clients and I'm > sure they trust me, I use short, mostly impersonal mails without too > many explanations, who wants to get a preview with a 22 page contract? > So all I "say" in the e-mail is I'm sending you a Preview DVD. > With an understanding what a preview is, that it is a preview. Only a > preview, just so the Festival will know if they want the film or not. > It is not a present, a free copy, or a legal "first sale" any use > other than as a preview is a break of trust, and what RIIFF has done is unforgivable . > Maybe it is legal (I don't think so) but it stinks I believe if this > news goes around nobody will ever send a preview to RIIFF, I will not > they have shot their own leg. > I'm sending Previews not only to Film Festivals, also film Series, TV > Stations, Cinemas. Community Centers, newspapers (for reviews) and > occasionally a professor will ask for a preview so to see if s/he > wants it for the library to buy. I will continue to send Previews for > I trust People specially librarians, Angel & RIIFF you don't have to > worry that I will go to court, I want to distribute films and don't > have the time or energy for legal fights. > Listen to my advice destroy the DVDs. > Cheers everybody > > Nahum Laufer > http://onedayafterpeace.com/index.php > http://docsforeducation.com/ > Sales > Docs for Education > Erez Laufer Films > Holland st 10 > Afulla 18371 > Israel > lauf...@netvision.net.il > > > > > > VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of > issues relating to the selection, evaluation, > acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current > and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. 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