Re: [Videolib] Screening rights in Canada for Churches

2011-11-27 Thread Bergman, Barbara J
The Canadians can better answer this, but last I heard, no video can be shown anywhere in Canada without paying the PPR clearance for each screening. Since schools don't get a classroom exemption, I can imagine that churches do. ~Barb -Original Message- From:

Re: [Videolib] Screening rights in Canada for Churches

2011-11-27 Thread Jessica Rosner
Canadian law as noted is even stricter than US law as it has no classroom exemption. You could not show a copyrighted film to an audience in Canada without a license. I presume you can buy a site license in Canada which would entitle to show films from a given list for a fixed fee, but that would