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Can you play movies to an audience if you don't make a compulsory charge? (UK)?
Scenario: can you play films to an audience in, say, a church hall if you don't ask for an entry fee but do have a plate for donations on the way out? How is this covered under copyright?
4 Answers
- 1 decade ago
sometimes you can bypass the public copyright aspect, by having a book for members, at the door, and having the audience sign up in it as 'members' of your private club, and paying a 'membership fee'. Therefore it isnt a public anything. Its a members only private club showing.
This is used in some countries to wiggle past the copyright issues.
:)
- nutwpinutLv 51 decade ago
I don't know about UK laws, but USA laws it would be against the law. It is not because you are receiving monoey, but it is because more than 10 people are watching it. In the US, you can only legally show a video you own to no more than 10 people.
Of course nobody is going to bust the children's BDay party showing a cartoon to a bunch of kids, but technically they are breaking the law. If you are getting a plate of donations the movie industry would definitely want to get a piece of that.
Forgot to mention that educational reasons have exceptions, only if there is no profit involved.
Source(s): Worked in a Video Store in the USA.
