My UK Cousin worked for Molinaire, a film and TV agency in Leicester. In 2016 they did a lot of what they termed rationalisation, which included letting some staff go, selling fixtures and fittings and hundreds if not thousands of movies, shorts, documentaries and TV series
About 90% of the movies and TV series were sold at bargain bottom prices to companies like Zodiac Rights, TVF International, Electric Sky.
Left over was a box of 500Gb, 1Tb and 1.5Tb USB portable hard drives. These were loaned to movie houses, small TV broadcasters and small theatres and contained BBC and ITV series and documentaries, Warner Bros and small studio movies for a few months to help them choose titles they wanted to rent or show. There was also a box of "Linn 24 bits of Christmas 2013 and 2014" on a 500Gb HDD and these were given away free. I was given one
So she offered ?10 per hard disc and bought 8. I was sent one as a gift
On this HDD are 130 different movie files. These are licensed as "free to use but not to be sold as retail". Molinaire's legal dept told her there was no restriction about sharing any of this content, as long as it did not comprise a commercial transaction, ie selling them
So, if I have these movies, is there any restriction in my passing them to whoever wants? Today, many of the movies are becoming dated, like Of Horses and Men, American Hustle, Two Days one Night, Twenty Feet from Stardom, Interstellar, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (terrible) and others
One reason I ask is that a forum member put in a request today for a 2009 movie and this is also on the HDD. I offered it to him free of charge
About 90% of the movies and TV series were sold at bargain bottom prices to companies like Zodiac Rights, TVF International, Electric Sky.
Left over was a box of 500Gb, 1Tb and 1.5Tb USB portable hard drives. These were loaned to movie houses, small TV broadcasters and small theatres and contained BBC and ITV series and documentaries, Warner Bros and small studio movies for a few months to help them choose titles they wanted to rent or show. There was also a box of "Linn 24 bits of Christmas 2013 and 2014" on a 500Gb HDD and these were given away free. I was given one
So she offered ?10 per hard disc and bought 8. I was sent one as a gift
On this HDD are 130 different movie files. These are licensed as "free to use but not to be sold as retail". Molinaire's legal dept told her there was no restriction about sharing any of this content, as long as it did not comprise a commercial transaction, ie selling them
So, if I have these movies, is there any restriction in my passing them to whoever wants? Today, many of the movies are becoming dated, like Of Horses and Men, American Hustle, Two Days one Night, Twenty Feet from Stardom, Interstellar, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (terrible) and others
One reason I ask is that a forum member put in a request today for a 2009 movie and this is also on the HDD. I offered it to him free of charge
