Hello,
I was wondering if any of you could give me a bit of direction.
Our Media Center recently received the 2007-2011 submissions from the Rhode
Island International Film Festival. We have a Film Program here and we're the
state college, so it makes sense. We'd like to catalog these items
I don't have a good legal frame of reference here but this seems extremely
dicey, especially if these are being added to a circulating collection. If I
were you, I would look at the submission contract one more time. Does the
document indicate that the festivals right to preview would be the
I had a copy of a film that we screened at a conference while the film was
still on the Festival curcuit. Though the filmmaker was fine with me keeping
the copy as a personal copy, she said we would have to wait until they found a
distributor before adding it to our collection AND we had to
As someone who has routinely submitted films to festivals I can tell you
they are definitely NOT for collections or circulations. In most cases
there is paperwork though you might not have access to it. Most of it is
now done via email. Films are submitted from rights holders around the
world,
I asked the opinion of a filmmaker I'm working with, who will be in
the 2012 RIIFF next weekendhere are her comments
''We're in RIIFF 2012 next weekend and I'd actually have to look to
see what their release says on Withoutabox. The agreement is usually
just a small box on the screen
He's history...
Gary (who is still sorta minding the store)
Please remove this person! Thanks!
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As a filmmaker, I would be a bit ticked off if a festival gave a copy of my
movie to a university who then planned to use it in their library or
classroom. Why would this university then buy an institutional version of
my movie if they already have a donated copy in their collection? As
Suzanne
If there is a contract, that would be what you'd need to check. Otherwise,
this is a first sale issue. As long as these are legal copies, the owner of
those copies can do what they want with them within the law (loan, view
privately, sell, destroy, use in the classroom under section 110,
