Movies All Day

    This study is interesting because during my senior year at Johnson University Florida I was planning a movie night for my residents and at first I placed the movie name on the front of the flyer that would be distributed and I was told that I could not put the actual movie title, but I could say a movie because it would be violating the movie's copyright law. When reading this case I noticed that never did the school say that these movies were for any educational purpose, instead it is just something to entertain the people attending their festival.
    When it comes to the factors of fair use they are taking into account the purpose of the use, the nature of the copyrighted work, the amount used, and the market impact (Hobbs, 19).  Now looking at these different factors in this situation with a school, the purpose of the movies was not to teach a lesson to the students, it was to entertain the public at their event, so this does not fall under the educational fair use.  The nature of the work was that they were DVDs and even if the educators owned a personal copy of the movie they were sharing with the public and not just their classrooms.  The amount of the movies being used was 100%, they were not just using a small amount of the movie to show.  When it comes to the market impact, the school was not charging for viewing the movies which is good because that would definitely break the copyright law because the owners would then be missing out on the funds meant to be given to them for the movie creation. If the school was using these movie for an different, educational purpose and did not state the movie's name publicly then they probably would not have been given this letter.