Berkeley Elementary School Ordered To Pay $250 For Screening Disney’s ‘Lion King’

CBS San Francisco ^ | February 2, 2020 | John Ramos

[Swordmaker]

The copyright is supposed to expire 50 years after the author’s death.

Uh, no. This is a new movie released in 2019. That’s when it was copyrighted. Haven’t you ever seen the big blue FBI notices at the beginning of every DVD and Blu-ray Disc? The fine print on the screen explicitly states that what this dad did could have gotten him more than just a $250 retroactive license charge. He could have faced a $10,000 criminal fine, because technically they were making money from the screening.

[Swordmaker]

li>Whatever happened to all of that?
You just never hear about it anymore.

Steve Jobs negotiated a universal digital music license.

[trebb]

Yeah -they had Napster and other file sharing apps - I think that the making the files available was the biggest “sin”. They never seemed to mention Newsgroups which have so much music available that you could fill up multiple large hard drives with it ...