disney puts a copyright ownership statement on almost all their double sided posters. 2 lines of little print on the back in one corner. when you sell a poster, your really selling the image or artwork on the poster. the paper is not worth anything. the majority of posters I get now come throught technicolor or deluxe. Several studios handle their own distribution. technicolor charges me if I order over what they allot me for the number of screens I have. When I brought pirates 3 back in for a second run, they didn't want to give me anymore. I had to say hey that was three months ago and I threw them out. They act like they only get a few. Deluxe is not so picky.
I doubt the studios are selling any posters retail. especially through movie goods. disney has them in court right now if I am not mistaken. Martin -----Original Message----- From: James Richard <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wed, Apr 28, 2010 12:44 pm Subject: Re: [MOPO] Film Collectors vs Poster Collectors Glenn, The NSS no longer exists and since the only posters that were identified as "belonging" to anyone were those printed by the NSS (which plainly stated in the bottom margin that the poster must be returned to the NSS), I would say there is no longer any recourse for any company to claim they "own" individual examples of old movies posters and reclaim them. The studios still own the *copyright* on the poster image and so can theoretically prevent anyone from a picture of the poster commercially without permission, but they don't own the physical copies of the posters. As for posters printed since the demise of the NSS, most of those are sold at retail by the studios through various sites like www.moviegoods.com, so the studios have no claim to the individual copies of those posters either. But even when the NSS was around, I can't recall a single instance of them gong to a collector and demanding that they turn over their "illegally owned" NSS movie posters. -- JR Glenn Taranto wrote: Oh, yes, by far and away. Has there been any examples, yet, of studios coming in and confiscating old posters from auctions or private collectors? These film collectors understand, if it's known they have a rare print there's a possibility, as Todd pointed out, their collection can be confiscated. Mostly because these prints were obtained illegally. Glenn ----- Original Message ----- From: Bruce Hershenson To: Glenn Taranto Cc: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 10:39 AM Subject: Re: [MOPO] TCM Festival As opposed to rare movie poster collectors? On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Glenn Taranto <[email protected]> wrote: Those rare films collectors can be a bit squirrely. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [email protected] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [email protected] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [email protected] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
