Public Performance Rights
Are you interested in screening one of the Libraries' DVDs or videos your event, e.g., a film festival? If so, keep reading.
While we own the actual DVDs or VHS tapes in our collection we do not (for the most part) own the copyright to the content of the films themselves. Most of the videos we have cannot be shown in a public (that is, non-classroom) setting without first buying something called Public Performance Rights (PPR).
With that said, we DO own PPR for many documentaries. For example, DVDs and videos from the distributors listed below can be shown in a free, non-profit setting that is open to the public. Click on the name of the distributor to see which titles we have in the Libraries.
If you need more information about PPR and our collection, please contact vallier@uw.edu.
Distributors:
- Annenberg/CPB - Educational and instructional videos covering such areas as arts, education, foreign languages, literature, sciences and social sciences.
- Bullfrog Films - Independently-produced videos on environmental issues, including the areas of ecology, agriculture, indigenous peoples, women’s studies, genetics, sustainable development, community regeneration and marine biology.
- California Newsreel - Films and videos on topics such as race and diversity, African American life and history, as well as African feature films and documentaries.
- Cinema Guild - Documentaries from around the world, covering such topics as health, the fine arts, social science and sciences as well as world cultures.
- Documentary Educational Resources - Founded in 1968, Documentary Educational Resources produces, distributes and promotes quality ethnographic and documentary films from around the world.
- Frameline - Frameline’s mission is to strengthen the diverse lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community and further its visibility by supporting and promoting a broad array of cultural representations and artistic expression in film, video and other media arts.
- First Run Icarus - Independently produced documentaries, covering a wide range of topics and areas of the world.
- Films for the Humanities & Sciences - A large selection of videos on a wide range of subjects.
- Filmakers Library - Documentary films and videos covering many subjects, such as, but not exclusively, anthropology, art, psychology, sociology, women’s studies, and multicultural issues.
- Media Education Foundation - Documentaries that encourage critical thinking and debate on the issues and role of media in contemporary society.
- National Film Board of Canada - Since the NFB’s founding in 1939, it has produced over 13,000 works and won over 5,000 awards, including 12 Oscars, 2 Canadian New Media Awards and 2 Webbys.
- New Day Films - New Day Films is a filmmaker-run distribution company providing award-winning films to educators since 1971.
- Third World Cinema - Third World Newsreel (TWN) is an alternative media arts organization that fosters the creation, appreciation and dissemination of independent film and video by and about people of color and social justice issues.
- Women Make Movies - Works by and about women, including documentary, experimental, animation, dramatic and mixed-genre films.
- Zipporah Films - Films by Frederick Wiseman.
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Wednesday January 26, 2011
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