David, great choice, but we really wanted to limit this to *Creative Commons*movies. Also, this is considered a public screening and we would have to jump through far too many hoops and provide lots of papers. Any way, I have cc'ed Marcel. Maybe he can help with a quick explanation of what we can and what we can't do.
--- Florian Nadge, GUADEC 2013 GUADEC c/o Red Hat| Purkynova 71/99| 61200 Brno| tel: +420 603 764 858 On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 12:02 PM, David King <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi! > > > On 2013-07-09 11:01, Florian Nadge <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Simply take your pick from the approved list of common-license films and: >> >> - mark your top-three with a + >> - write GNOMIES in the subject >> - and send it to: [email protected] >> >> The list was handpicked by our film guru Marcel and only contains CC >> movies >> that we can show without paying licensing fees: >> > > Is there a reason to restrict the list to CC-licensed films? There are > many excellent films in the public domain at archive.org: > > http://archive.org/search.php?**query=collection%3Afeature_** > films&sort=-%2Fadditional%**2Fitem%2Fdownloads<http://archive.org/search.php?query=collection%3Afeature_films&sort=-%2Fadditional%2Fitem%2Fdownloads> > > On that basis, my three choices would be: > > 1. Night of the Living Dead http://archive.org/details/** > night_of_the_living_dead<http://archive.org/details/night_of_the_living_dead> > 2. D.O.A. > http://archive.org/details/**doa_1949<http://archive.org/details/doa_1949> > 3. House on Haunted Hill > > http://archive.org/details/**House_On_Haunted_Hill.avi<http://archive.org/details/House_On_Haunted_Hill.avi> > > As these are works by foreign nationals, the “rule of the shorter term” > applies, so they are also in the public domain in the Czech Republic. > Section 107, paragraph 4 of the Copyright Act says: “Copyright in the works > of foreign nationals shall not subsist for longer than > copyright in the country of origin of the work.”: > > http://portal.unesco.org/**culture/en/files/30389/** > 11424310803cz_copyright_en_**2000.pdf/cz_copyright_en_2000.**pdf<http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/files/30389/11424310803cz_copyright_en_2000.pdf/cz_copyright_en_2000.pdf> > > -- > http://amigadave.com/ >
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