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Topic: Acceptable videotaping inside a theater?
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Thomas Procyk
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1842
From: Royal Palm Beach, FL, USA
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 10-01-2002 12:24 PM
When we did a RHPS show at school, they had several people videotaping the performance without ever thinking twice. Sure, the sound was on the tape, and they caught a shot of the screen occasionally when panning, but anyone who gets up in arms over something like that needs to get a life.Copyright laws are getting out of control these days. There's a fine line between trying to protect your intellectual property, and being a greedy miser with it. I find it very hard to understand that anyone taping the actors at a RHPS show is stealing anything, no matter how legally technical you want to be about it. I'm surprised people don't have to get some sort of 76-page written permission from FOX to even perform along with the RHPS movie. As for performing a copyrighted screenplay/script, the actors at the Rocky Horror shows are hardly, if ever, following any sort of script. For one, they are not reading any lines since all the sound is coming from the film. Most of the action is improvised based on the layout of the theater and props available, too. If I videotape a Rocky Horror Picture Show cast and FOX wants to sue me for it, let them. They can have the damn tape to kick around the office and show to their higher-ups that their little  movie is still drawing a crowd after 25-some years. As if anyone would even sit through it without the shennanegans and heckling.  They should really be going after people videotaping "The Transporter", not a bunch of kids having fun on a Saturday night with an old movie. =TMP=
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Frank Angel
Film God
Posts: 5305
From: Brooklyn NY USA
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 10-01-2002 11:07 PM
Ah, Thomas....youth is a beautiful thing. It's so good to hear your call-it-like-it is exuberance. And so right you are. But this is capitalism, my boy -- EVERYONE who has the misfortune of growing up eventually become a greedy miser about this stuff!When a kid is video taping the shenannigans at RHPS and the camera pans and catches the screen and records the music soundtrack, I would put this in the catagory of a statutory violation. Sure some MPAA lawyer with hair combed over his bald spot and bad breath could probably argue that it technically violates the copyright law and it's theft of intellectual property, but on the other side of that coin is -- hey, they have to catch you first, don't they! I've actually invented a door frame that looks like a regular frame, but packed inside are powerful ceramic magnets. Most of the time they just promote good health as you walk back and forth through your door. However, when the FBI and the MPAA dogs come a-calling and want to see your tape collection, you just hand them the tapes and let them walk out with them in hand. Same goes for your computer hard drive. "But Agent, Sir...I swear I have done nothing wrong, as those tapes will clearly show. Have a nice day, and watch your step as you leave."  It might also be a good idea to take the lead from the studios themselves....use decoy titles on all your tapes and film cans. Yes, as you might have guessed from this post, at the moment I am suffereing from sleep deprevation.
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