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Movie Licensing

HELP! I want to have an event at my high school when the Twilight DVD comes out. I have tons of ideas, but the main thing I need to figure out is HOW can I show the movie to a large group of students without breaking copyright.

I have done some research on movie licensing for schools, but I cannot find any information concerning Summit Entertainment, the studio who released the film.

I'm sure other schools/libraries want to have similar events. Hopefully we can work together to figure out how!

Thanks in advance!

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Permalink Reply by teacherninja on February 6, 2009 at 9:38am

Summit Entertainment may have released the film, but someone else might be releasing the DVD. Check Variety or imdb.com.

Also: they've probably all seen the thing more than once, so you can probably have a release party without actually showing the movie.

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Permalink Reply by Donna Forester on February 6, 2009 at 6:57pm

Librarians in our county use Swank for a license to show a video in a public performance.
http://www.swank.com/museums/about.html
I just searched their website and Twilight is listed there.

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