Jaydee27
28th Mar 2008, 09:51
As lots of business jets come with swanky DVD players and individual screens, does anyone know the score regarding film licensing?
I've received conflicting advice from the companies in the UK that are meant to monitor this. FACT weren't interested, Filmbank were meant to get back to me two weeks ago and MPLC heard the word commercial and said I'd need to license on a per film and per showing basis.
As I suspect the brokering of aircraft is based on cost and availability, rather than the size of the video screens, I'd argue that there is no commercial benefit to having them on board.
However, as we'd like to provide a small library of films for pasengers to choose from, this still brings me back to the question - do we need to do anything to be covered legally?
I've received conflicting advice from the companies in the UK that are meant to monitor this. FACT weren't interested, Filmbank were meant to get back to me two weeks ago and MPLC heard the word commercial and said I'd need to license on a per film and per showing basis.
As I suspect the brokering of aircraft is based on cost and availability, rather than the size of the video screens, I'd argue that there is no commercial benefit to having them on board.
However, as we'd like to provide a small library of films for pasengers to choose from, this still brings me back to the question - do we need to do anything to be covered legally?