[FC-discuss] Movie nights and online streaming

Thu Jan 21 15:20:59 EST 2010

Hi Andrea,

Under US law, that could still constitute a public performance of the film,
which in theory needs a separate license. I can't speak to UK law on the
matter, though.

Best,

Elizabeth

On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 8:48 PM, AF <af529 at york.ac.uk> wrote:

> Just a quick question:
>
> A registered society in University is allowed to have movie nights. A
> copyrighted protected video is shown to a small public. Now, if I stream
> it online without copying it, to the authenticated members of a given
> society, does that constitute an infringement of the law?
>
> Ciao,
> Andrea.
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> > Subject: [FC-discuss] Microsoft Asks Free Culture for Astoturfers and
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> > Message: 2
> > Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 23:45:26 -0500
> > From: Peter Olson <peabo at peabo.com>
> > Subject: [FC-discuss] vids: remix from the '70s;
> >       transformativeworks.org
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> > "Vids are fan-made music videos that involve the re-cutting and remixing
> >   of footage from television shows or films. The history of vidding far
> >   predates YouTube (2003) and contemporary "remix" culture; rather,
> >   vidding dates from the 1970s, and is one of the many arts to have
> >   emerged from Star Trek and subsequent media fandoms. Moreover, vidding
> >   is particularly notable as a form of filmmaking primarily practiced by
> >   women, perhaps because women dominate media fandom generally, or
> perhaps
> >   because telling stories with extant footage has been one way to
> surmount
> >   the bar which hinders women's entry into the expensive and
> >   male-dominated film world.
> >
> > "The Vidding History project of the OTW is committed to documenting and
> >   celebrating the 35 year history of fan vidding. We believe that
> >   noncommercial works, like vids, that make creative use of existing
> >   copyrighted material are transformative, and that transformative works
> >   are legitimate under US copyright law."
> >
> > http://transformativeworks.org/projects/vidding-history
> >
> > OTW: http://transformativeworks.org
> >
> > "Transformative Works and Cultures is a peer-reviewed academic journal
> >   that seeks to promote scholarship on fanworks and practices. The first
> >   issue appeared on September 15, 2008.
> >
> > "TWC is a Gold Open Access publication of the nonprofit Organization for
> >   Transformative Works copyrighted under a Creative Commons
> >   Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License. TWC has been submitted
> >   for indexing in all major academic databases, open access directories,
> >   and services such as Google Scholar."
> >
> > http://transformativeworks.org/projects/twc
> >
> > peter
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