Subject Guides: Public Performance Rights (PPR) for video at Trexler Library: When do you need PPR?

When do you need PPR?

Public Performance Rights are necessary for public screenings of media to audiences outside the regular curriculum.

So... what does "public screening" mean?

Examples of events where you would need to obtain performance rights include:

Student club events	Extra-curricular sponsored events
Film series or “Movie nights”	Film festivals

Basically any time you show a film or video to a group outside of a classroom or teaching environment.

Public performance rights are not needed...

for private “home” viewing (with family or friends);
when screening media “in the course of face-to-face teaching activities” in the regular curriculum
- per Title 17 of the U.S. Code, chapter 1, Section 110
when screening openly-licensed or public domain films
- See Open Resources: Open Video