Hey Tom,
I'm sure it is because they are based in Canada. Most of the reproduction
houses are in Europe, mainly France and Germany. It may be that the laws are
hard to enforce on this issue out of the states. Many of my studio contacts say
it's just too overwhelming. To be honest, while someone is making money off of
their image, it is still their image advertising their movie that is being put
out there. So, in a way it's millions of dollars in free publicity.
Duplicating a video, DVD or CD to resell it is a different matter since those
are primarily being produced for sale to the public to make a profit. Movie
posters are not made for the public for sale or otherwise so the only money the
studio is losing in that venture are the people that help themselves to
originals at the studio, the printer or other vendors that utilize movie
posters. In the end even those posters make it to a wall somewhere, again
advertising that movie.
Moviegoods makes their own line of reproductions and buys repros from other
sources. I supply Moviegoods the frames they sell on their website and often
they ship me the posters to install in the frames. They have a nice line of
reproductions to movies all the way back to the silents and conveniently
printed to 27x40, not some weird size like the ones that come out of Europe.
That allows customers to swap posters in and out of a standard size movie
poster frame. They are made on photographic paper and in no way would you
confuse it for an original and they don't claim otherwise. I don't know what
type of licensing agreement they have, if any. I'm sure most of these companies
reproducing posters don't have licensing agreements. Portal does and I'm sure
it irks them that they have to pay those fees when all these other companies
are out there reproducing like crazy for no fees. Just guessing.
Sue
----- Original Message -----
From: Tom A. Pennock<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2007 10:09 AM
Subject: [MOPO] MovieGoods?
How does the company MovieGoods get away with reproducing ALL those movie
posters, lobby cards, EVERYTHING? Someone said it's because they are really
based out of Canada. I would think legally royalties would have to be paid.
These prints are not licenced like the Portal's and other were or are now.
These are just run off with total disregard for the studio's and copyright
holders.
--Tom Pennock
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