A practical solution would be to make sure all your screeners are clearly marked screener and are heavily watermarked with "SCREENER" throughout the film. As I mentioned this probably does not afford you legal protection but it would make the copy unsuitable for a library and would tip the librarian off that it is not intended for circulation. Also as Dennis mentioned VIMEO or a similar service would protect you from ever letting them have a copy.
On an unrelated side note I am not a fan of 'pay to submit" festivals and I have never done this. On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 11:19 AM, nahum laufer <lauf...@netvision.net.il>wrote: > Dear Dorcas & other friends > It's not for me to change the rules & laws, I have to continue to work > distributing I accept the "First sale" rulings but my position is what > about > no sale copies, Previews & even Presents, when there was no first sale. > The advice to make the "festivals" sign an agreement is not practical, I > subscribe online to forms, pay on-line submission fee and then get an > address where to send the preview, no way to get an agreement most > festivals > will just disregard me, I prefer to trust them and be a part of their > festival. > >From your mail (also Anthony's) your library and most others respect the > rules, I'm letting the issue go I don't have the energy or will to quarrel > over one copy. > "One Day After Peace" was last week at 3 festivals, New-Jersey, Italy & > North Ireland, next month another one in Italy also in Poland 40 > university > libraries have the film > For me our message of Peace , Salaam, Shalom is more important than one not > polite librarian. > > Nahum Laufer > http://onedayafterpeace.com/index.php > http://docsforeducation.com/ > Sales > Docs for Education > Erez Laufer Films > Holland st 10 > Afulla 18371 > Israel > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 21:30:32 +0000 > From: "Haller, Dorcas W." <dhal...@ccri.edu> > Subject: Re: [Videolib] more on World Cat > To: "videolib@lists.berkeley.edu" <videolib@lists.berkeley.edu> > Message-ID: > <5422b4f40bd6d74fa6a68212df338be93c3d2...@kwmbox02.campus.ccri.edu > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Dear Nahum, > > Rhode Island may be a little state but we do have more than one institution > of higher education. Granted, they all have similar names. I work at the > Community College of Rhode Island (CCRI). The University of Rhode Island > (URI) was the library that received the large donation of films from RIIFF > (Rhode Island International Film Festival). While URI may have received > your > two films in that donation, I can tell you they do not appear in the > library's catalog, and are probably not available for borrowing or showing > publicly. > > You say your slogan is "I trust you, trust me", but apparently you don't > really mean it, if you spend time checking up on who has a copy of your > films via WorldCat. Perhaps, like Reagan, your motto is really "Trust but > verify"? > > You ask a good question about the transfer of the PPR. If one library has > bought a film from you, with PPR, and then withdraws that film from its > collection and transfers it to another library -- this could happen in a > library consortium, for example -- do the performance rights transfer, too? > They have been paid for, haven't they? I don't know the answer to this, I'm > just speculating. Perhaps it would be necessary to state in the sales > agreement that the PPR are not transferable? > > Furthermore, you say, "... on every private sale invoice is stated for > "private personal Home Use". So selling or donating to a library is a > break > of trust...". Here at CCRI (and, no doubt, other libraries), we have a few > thousand films on DVD and VHS, both feature films and documentaries. We > lend > them, including the ones that have been donated, "for private personal > Home > Use". We do not lend them to movie theatres, or to student groups for > parties. If someone wants to borrow one of our films to show to publicly, > we > advise them about securing performance rights. I'm not sure I understand > your belief that libraries are lending out their films for public > performance. > > Surely, if you want to make sure your preview films aren't donated to > libraries (or private persons) after a film festival, all you have to do is > request that the films in question be returned to you after the festival? > > Dusty Haller > > Dorcas Haller > Librarian/Professor/Department Chair > Community College of Rhode Island Library > One Hilton Street, Providence, RI 02905 > dhal...@ccri.edu > Phone: 401-455-6085 > Fax: 401-455-6087 > > **** > > > 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. >
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.
