GEN: Video Licensing

[Marcia Dressel <dressel@OZ.OSCEOLA.K12.WI.US>]

LM_NET colleagues,

I just received a letter (it was addressed generically to "Principal" but
passed to me) from the MPLC (Motion Picture Licensing Corporation.)
I'm wondering if any of you have seen it as well.  It promises immediate
licensing for our schoo, for a price, to show "home use only" videos whose
use otherwise is against copyright law.  My first instinct is "Yes, we need
to do this."  But since I have not heard of any of the discussion about this
coming down the pike, so to speak, and it doesn't smack of legality, I'm
skeptical.
Have any of you heard that this "umbrella license" was going to be a way for
us to escape the "home use only" clause?

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Marcia Dressel, Library Media Specialist
dressel@oz.osceola.k12.wi.us
Osceola Elementary School   OR  Osceola Intermediate School
250 Tenth Avenue, PO Box 128    550 Chieftain Street, PO Box 128
Osceola WI USA 54020-0128       Osceola WI USA 54020-0128
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