Moishe Nola hosted our first outdoor movie night this April, and now we have been snuffed out by Swank Motion Pictures, Inc. for holding an ‘unlicensed movie exhibition’. First of all, kudos to Swank for whatever web spiders they have crawling through the Internet or secret movie detectives they have on surveillance in our neighborhood (I imagine their informants will be reporting back on this blog-post as well). Our first movie night brought out our neighbor, his wife, and two friends from work - hardly a mass public screening. So where do you draw the line with this? Do you need a license every time you have some friends over to watch a movie? Is it public if it can be seen from the street? I can sit on my porch and see what baseball game my neighbor is watching, but I wouldn’t call it a ‘public exhibition’. Anyway, I’m off to the Major Motion Picture Association of America website to see if we’re in jeopardy of breaking anti piracy laws. If any members of the New Orleans Moishe House go missing send rescue - we’re probably been taken hostage by the MPAA and being popcorn-boarded to confess all we know.
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