Dear CW,
Is anyone familiar with the website moviedetective.net? One of our faculty
members is interested in a Michael Powell movie being sold by them. It is
Herzog Blaubarts Burghttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077672/ (1963).The
description on their website is:
This is a region-free DVD-R
A complete and total seller of illegal bootlegs. Rule of thumb is that when
you can't find a studio title from any standard source but some site is
filled with them it is a bootlegger. Also no major titles are release
region free. It would NOT be legal copy if you bought it so the professor
will
Dear Dorcas other friends
It's not for me to change the rules laws, I have to continue to work
distributing I accept the First sale rulings but my position is what about
no sale copies, Previews even Presents, when there was no first sale.
The advice to make the festivals sign an agreement is
A practical solution would be to make sure all your screeners are clearly
marked screener and are heavily watermarked with SCREENER throughout the
film. As I mentioned this probably does not afford you legal protection but
it would make the copy unsuitable for a library and would tip the librarian
