Message: 4 I want to compliment on Anthony's attitude, the best is to be on safe side, See the practical side of a documentary film maker, most docs are not fit for the retail market, there is no chance that s/he will be able to mass sell retail on $30 per DVD, a producer that wants to sell to the "educational" market shoots his own leg if he puts it on the retail. So if you see our web-site we are only offering Library use or PPR for our films . That doesn't mean I won't sell a copy for private home use but I find out who is the person and for what reason he wants the film, Professors get an answer to apply to their library to purchase the film. A few weeks ago a guy found in his late father's papers that he had served aboard the Darien during WW II , I sold him "The Darien Dilemma" for $56 knowing that I'm not shooting my leg. I want to remind all readers of this "Blog" that we are not selling DVDs but films, and films are sold according to use and audience, Big TV station will pay more then a small cable station, theatre with a paying audience pays more then a PPR for a university and so on, It is completely justified that an university with a possible audience of thousands should pay more the private home use. Cheers
Nahum Laufer http://onedayafterpeace.com/index.php http://docsforeducation.com/ Sales Docs for Education Erez Laufer Films Holland st 10 Afulla 18371 Israel Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2013 13:57:19 -0800 From: Anthony Anderson <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Videolib] Emails like this To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Here at USC we purchase between 100 and 150 documentary films a year, and it is very much our firm policy that such films *always *be purchased at the full institutional price. A few years back one particular documentary film was inadvertently purchased through Amazon and we ended up receiving am email from the distributor, very much similar to the message that Mary received in regards to*My Perestroika.* As soon as I read the email, I immediately got in touch with the distributor and apologized for the error. We sent back the "offending" DVD to Amazon and ordered the "bonafide" DVD from the company handing the academic distribution of the film. Were this to happen again, I would do exactly the same. It is not for me to say that other academic institutions should do likewise, but personally I believe you have the ethical responsibility to so do so. Also, too: understand that USC owing to its size and its close proximity to the entertainment industry,is subject to a lot more scrutiny than a lot more other academic institutions. Thus, we have to be relentlessly squeaky clean in everything we do when it comes to media. Cheers! Anthony ******************************* Anthony E. Anderson Assistant Director, Doheny Memorial Library University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA 90089-0182 (213) 740-1190 [email protected] "Wind, regen, zon, of kou, Albert Cuyp ik hou van jou." ******************************** [email protected] Dear Ms. X, We recently noticed that you have a copy of My Perestroika in your library's collection. We are thrilled! This critically acclaimed documentary enables students to better understand Soviet and Post-Soviet life by following the lives of 5 Russians who were part of the last generation to live under the Iron Curtain. My Perestroika, which recently received a 2012 Peabody Award, is useful in a wide-variety of disciplines, including History, Anthropology, Political Science, and Sociology. At the bottom of this email, I have included just a few examples of what professors have said about the film (for more examples, please visit our website). According to our records, it seems that your library may have inadvertently purchased the copy of My Perestroika distributed by New Video/Docurama. Unfortunately, this version is for home use only. The only version of My Perestroika that is legally licensed for educational use is distributed by New Day Films. In order, for independent films such as My Perestroika to exist for use in teaching, and so they can continue to be made in the future by non-profit filmmakers such as Ms. Hessman, it is critical that institutions purchase the appropriate version. We realize that the cost of the educationally licensed dvd may not fit within your college's budget. The price was determined by the cost of making the film which, unfortunately, was very high (over 800k) particularly since Soviet archival and music rights were very expensive. We have discussed the price issue with our distributor and we are willing to offer you a one-time discount to purchase the educationally licensed dvd at the extremely reduced price of $150. You can purchase the film for at this special price by clicking here (http://www.newday.com/films/myperestroika.html). On the online ordering form, just select the button for the K-12 schools ($150 option). As you continue through the purchasing process, there will be a place for Special Instructions/Comments. In that box, please write "approved purchase at high school rate." We also ask that you also please remove the Home Video DVD (New Video / Docurama) version from your library catalogue immediately. Thank you in advance for your assistance, and please let me know if you have any questions or concerns. Sincerely, Lisa Yountchi Educational Outreach Coordinator My Perestroika -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Deg Farrelly Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2013 1:57 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Videolib] What is permitting loan? (Was: Brief Summary on the Copyright Exceptions) Read the Work Group report and recommendations. Formerly distributed: http://www.section108.gov/docs/Sec108StudyGroupReport.pdf (page 15) 5. The prohibition on off-site lending of digital replacement copies should be modified so that if the library?s or archives? original copy of a work is in a physical digital medium that can lawfully be lent off-site, then it may also lend for off-site use any replacement copy reproduced in the same or equivalent physical digital medium, with technological protection mea- sures equivalent to those applied to the original (if any). deg farrelly, Media Librarian Arizona State University Libraries Hayden Library C1H1 P.O. Box 871006 Tempe, Arizona 85287-1006 Phone: 602.332.3103 On 2/14/13 7:39 AM, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: >------------------------------ > >From: Jessica Rosner <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: [Videolib] Brief Summary on the Copyright Exceptions for > Libraries in the Digital Age: Section 108 Reform > > >Um can you explain what "permitting loan of a copy of something that >was originally purchased to be loaned". That sounds like it covers any >item in a library so you should be able to make a copy anything in the >collection ( book, DVD, magazine) and loan the copy instead of the >original? I am kind of lost on that one. 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. 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