We are searching for the copyright to have a movie night on the seminary campus. CVLI offers this kind of licensing for churches, but can’t offer the same license for seminaries. The license that they offer for churches is very good. It covers most producers and gives the church freedom to show movies in their entirety or clips. (You can’t edit them – just show them) They do have a license for seminaries but the list of producers is very small. It doesn’t cover Disney, Sony, Paramount, Dreamworks – and many of the other major producers.
Jim, my cohort, started calling other schools. Apparently a company called Swank Motion Pictures offers a “pay per use” license. This is great! If we want to play a movie we can contact them with the details. We give them the name of the movie and the estimated attendance numbers. They will negotiate the rights and get us the media. Technically the DVDs from the movie store (and Walmart/ Best Buy) are for home use only (FBI warning). They will license us a copy that can be played in a public venue.
The prices are approximately $350 – $650 per title. This is very reasonable for a public showing of a video. They also have access to “pre-release” titles. This would include videos that are no longer in the theater but have not yet been released for home use. They also have access to HD DVDs and BlueRay discs.
We are also looking into Criterion Pictures. They too have a subscription service (like CVLI), but their producer list is much larger. They don’t carry ever video or even some of the biggest blockbusters, but they do carry many.
Any other brilliant ideas?
Today in my presentation my Keynote crashed. I restarted it and it crashed again. The giggling students in the back were real encouraging. I would have been laughing too. I restarted the computer and it crashed again. Why?
