Hi Well, maybe you could bring in a couple of table lamps, a nice area rug, and comfy couch and call it home video viewing...
Strictly speaking, what you're proposing doing constitutes public performance, and therefor requires rights. On the other hand, depends on how risk-averse you are and what it is that you're thinking of screening. If it's Bullfrog or Video Project or another indie distributor, I'd bet a nice courtesy call would get you an OK. Again, if you're feeling frisky, you might just go ahead and do it (unless it's a Disney film). Seems like the risk of mad dog litigation is pretty small. gary > Hi, all, > > I'm going to be participating in a community Green Festival - many booths > of vendors/organizations promoting Green Living. Could I take a laptop > and run a couple of subject oriented DVDs to show examples of what we > have? They would run for the whole program - about 5 hours. I also have > a powerpoint presentation from last year that I can run on a continuous > loop, but I thought the DVDs would create a little more interest in our > booth. If I need PPR, I just won't do it. Thanks. > > Becky Tatar > Periodicals/Audiovisuals > Aurora Public Library > 1 E. Benton Street > Aurora, IL 60505 > Phone: 630-264-4100 > FAX: 630-896-3209 > blt...@aurora.lib.il.us > www.aurorapubliclibrary.org > > > > > VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of > issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic > control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in > libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve > as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of > communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video > producers and distributors. > Gary Handman Director Media Resources Center Moffitt Library UC Berkeley 510-643-8566 ghand...@library.berkeley.edu http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC "I have always preferred the reflection of life to life itself." --Francois Truffaut VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors.
