Movies....all day!

I believe the school WAS infringement of the copy right laws because...

1) As far as the explanation goes, the teacher's who were having these movies on all day did not seek out permission from the owners of the movies in the first place. Throughout my time working at the daycare, we had to seek out permission from the specific owners of the movies in order to play them on a large screen for multitudes of people. That is step one as to how they were in copyright infringement.

2) Even though the times and order of movies was not given, it does not make it acceptable to show the movies to a group of people without permission. Just the fact that the sound was being heard and people could watch the movie without permission puts them in infringement.

3) Even though there was no movie theater in town, the fact that they were showing movies without permission is the problem. Although there were most likely not as many people who were going to see these movies being played, it still is the fact that they were being shown to multiple people.

4) One saving factor could have been whether the movie was played on a large screen, or a smaller tv. How many people are watching these movies at a time. However, without the permission to show the movie they were still in infringement.

5) Fair use states that there is a limited use of copyright material used without permission. If they would have played the movies all one time then they could have gotten away with using this excuse. However, since they were playing three movies and they were on loop, the fair use law is not relevant in this situation.

Ultimately the teachers needed to get permission from the movie owners in order to show these movies on this day to large crowds.