Monday Morning Movies for August

by KathrynT | Entertainment | 877 Views

MONDAY MORNING MOVIE
BRATTLEBORO SENIOR CENTER
207 MAIN STREET
AUGUST MOVIES
AUGUST 5TH
Starring: Drew Barrymore, Anjelica Huston– 9:30 am
AUGUST 12TH
Starring: Ellen Burstyn, Harrison Ford – 10:00 am
AUGUST 19th
Starring: Jessica Tandy, Kathy Bates – 9:30 am
AUGUST 26TH
Starring: Alexis Bledel, William Hurt – 10:00 am

Please stay and enjoy lunch with Brattleboro Senior Meals. All movies are free and will start at 10:00 am unless otherwise listed. For information call Sarah at 802-257-7570.

Comments | 7

  • Submitted by no-see-um on July 28, 2019 at 11:15 pm

    Movie Schedule

    It’s fine to list the cast of the films being scheduled, but how about adding the NAME of the movie?

    • Submitted by cgrotke on July 29, 2019 at 9:12 am

      There is a mistaken assumption

      Quite a few organizations think that if you don’t mention the name of the movie, it is ok to show a film for free.

      It doesn’t really work like that, but no one seems to get in trouble so it continues.

      Technically, you need to pay for performance rights. There are some exceptions for education, public domain films, or films that come with licenses. There is no exception for “free” or “non-profit” organizations.

      A non-theatrical public performance license can run into the hundreds of dollars, per film. As one site counsels: “inability or unwillingness to pay is not a valid defense to a copyright infringement lawsuit”

      That said, we can treat these lists as movie quizzes and list the titles in the comments here.

      Search for the first two actresses and the film “Ever After: A Cinderella Story” comes up as a likely title.

      The second film seems to be “Age of Adeline”

      I’ll leave the other two for other commenters to have fun guessing.

    • Submitted by KathrynT on August 2, 2019 at 4:05 pm

      Movie Schedule

      Legally we cannot give out the movie title without a licence

      • Submitted by cgrotke on August 2, 2019 at 5:40 pm

        Pretty sure you need a license

        Legally you need a license to show the film. It doesn’t matter if the name is used or not.

        • Submitted by KathrynT on August 16, 2019 at 10:58 pm

          License

          Actually that is incorrect.

          • Submitted by cgrotke on August 17, 2019 at 9:31 am

            I'd love to be wrong

            Where are you getting this information? All copyright sites I know of say the opposite, and all movies have warnings about public performances attached to them. None of them say you can show movies if you don’t use the title of the film.

            If you are correct, anyone can show films anytime to anyone without paying the license fee, and the warnings on all the movies about “licensed for home use only” don’t actually mean anything. That can’t be right.

            Do you have any legal opinions for me to look at? I’d be happy to be wrong, but I’m pretty sure on this one that you need to pay license fees to show movies to public groups, no matter who you are or how you advertise them.

  • Submitted by annikee on August 4, 2019 at 10:52 am

    other 2

    Fried Green Tomatoes
    Tuck Everlasting- a great movie for nerds.

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