Wouldn't it be legal for a professor to purchase a DVD with home video rights, even though institutional pricing is listed too, and then sell the DVD to the university under the first-sale-doctrine? The DVD retains the original home video rights granted but the professor could use the DVD in the classroom under the face-to-face exemption assuming it was a nonprofit university and content directly relates to what is being taught. Chris is not looking for PPR anyway.
This coming from a distributor that does not have tiered pricing. Bob Robert A. Norris Managing Director Film Ideas, Inc. 308 North Wolf Road Wheeling, IL 60090 Phone: (847) 419-0255 Fax: (847) 419-8933 Email: [email protected] Web: www.filmideas.com www.FIChannels.com Please print responsibly. > From: [email protected] > Date: January 3, 2011 2:49:15 PM CST > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Videolib] [Videonews] Here we go again... > Reply-To: [email protected] > > > Well, Judy...it sucks, put it isn't illegal, as far as I'm aware. > > There continues to be a fair amount of confusion about the > PPR/institutional pricing gambit... Here's the deal: > > Some distributors charge higher prices to institutions (or others) because > they bundle items in their catalogs with PPR. In some cases, the same > titles may also be available without PPR on the home video market > (however, rarely are titles offered without PPR via the distributor's web > site). > > Some distributors charge higher prices to institutions because...well, > because they feel they can get the $$$ out of them. Some of these folks > confuse things by contending that PPR are required for ALL institutional > uses (including classroom use)--a false contention, of course. > > The bottom line is, vendors can charge whatever it wants, at whatever > price, to whomever they want, and under whichever conditions of use it > wishes: the transaction is commercial and contractual. Hell, they can > charge higher prices to hazel-eyed, red-haired users if they want... > > Now, that said: If a vendor chooses to put its wares into home video > distribution, they really have no say about who buys--particularly if the > fulfillment is by a third party such as amazon. We have had instances > here in which we've attempted to score home video stuff via amazon, only > to be informed that, as an institution, we have to pay more (in these > cases, fulfillment is via the vendor). Can't do much about it. > > gary handman
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