[Upd-discuss] UPD Resolution on "Eyes on the Prize"

[sandor]

Yummy!

    I believe this is exactly the impetus I needed to offer a showing.

Thanks!
-sándor

P.S.
I am located in the USA - San Diego, California.
I would welcome anyone who is interested, email me for more info.

David Tannenbaum wrote:

> The Union for the Public Domain board has passed this resolution in 
> support of Downhill Battle's campaign to organize screenings of the 
> U.S. civil rights documentary, "Eyes on the Prize":
>
>
> UPD BOARD RESOLUTION
>
> Whereas, the award-winning US documentary film series "Eyes on the 
> Prize" on the US civil rights movement -- called "the principal film 
> account of the most important American social movement of the 20th 
> century" by one expert -- has not been available for public viewing 
> for the past 10 years;
>
> Whereas, copyright laws and related licensing restrictions have been the
> chief barrier to this lack of access,
>
> Whereas, "Eyes on the Prize" will be screened over the Internet and in
> public showings across the US as part of Black History Month (February),
> despite the objections of various corporations and others that hold 
> copyrights on songs and historic footage that appear in the 
> documentary; the documentary maker is deceased.
>
> We, the board of the Union for the Public Domain,
>
> (1) endorse the work of the group "Downhill Battle" in organizing 
> these screenings and making this important documentary available to 
> the public, and
>
> (2) call upon national governments to implement specific limitations 
> to copyright that permit such works to be shown, when the social, 
> cultural, educational or developmental benefit of a use outweigh the 
> costs imposed by it on private parties.
>
> Union for the Public Domain - updinfo@public-domain.org
>
> For background, see http://www.downhillbattle.org/eyes/
>
>
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