From: nahum laufer [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, April 02, 2012 11:11 PM To: '[email protected]' Cc: '[email protected]' Subject: pricing Susan Thanks for your remarks. See our web-site www.docsfofeducation.com You can see we give different price for PPR and library & classroom use, as a distributer I can't offer a lending only option to Colleges & Universities for according to the legal info I got a face to face situation screening is allowed because it will be a legal copy, but possible to public library, but I still don't have enough info as how to price it and my primer mission is getting the filmmaker a good return. But I have a query for all, as some universities have started to stream films is it legal to state "PPR without streaming rights" & "PPR with streaming rights" with $100 extra for streaming rights Cheers Nahum Laufer Sales Docs for Education Erez Laufer Films Holland st 10 Afulla 18371 Israel And not just publics. I purchase films for an academic library, and the vast majority of our checkouts are for personal home (or dorm or frat...) use or for faculty showing a film in a face-to-face teaching situation. For any public screening, we make sure we've purchased PPR. So I disagree with the idea that there's no reason to license for "lending only." That's most of what we do! Yes, for documentaries, I do often pay a higher price because PPR is that's all that's offered -- and since it's a fine work, I'm willing to pay it, hoping someone WILL come along and use it in a film series or special event screening... but unfortunately, the vast majority of the ones for which I've paid PPR never do get screened publicly. Thus I have been appreciative of Kino Lorber's offering 3 options: home use, institutional, and institutional with PPR. That way, if I suspect something will be likely to be screened, I can go ahead & pay more for the "with PPR" option; but if I doubt it, I can get it for ~$100 less and have it ready for those "lending only" situations. This frees up more budget to buy more films. That's a long way of saying I agree with the notion of "institutional without PPR" and "institutional with PPR" options, priced appropriately. I believe it would help your sales. Susan Albrecht at Wabash College
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