Motion pictures and other audiovisual works including movies, TV programmes, or any entertainment video by means of DVD, Blu-ray, video cassette, downloads or similar that are available for rental or purchase are intended for personal, home use only.
If you wish to show the above in any other place e.g. in a Scout HQ or on a camp, you must have a separate licence (as detailed in the Copyright Design and Patents Act 1988) that specifically authorises the public performance of that work, regardless of the setting, audience size or length of the audiovisual work.
To negate the need to find and contact the copyright owner of each title and report the dates and times for each exhibition or to obtain a licence every time that a works is shown. South Yorkshire County pays annually for a Motion Picture umbrella license with covers all groups and units in the County.
The MPLC Umbrella Licence is the comprehensive yearly blanket licence provider for over 900 studios and producers which include covering major studios such as Walt Disney, Buena Vista, Dreamworks, Touchstone, Twentieth Century Fox, Hollywood Pictures, MGM, United Artists, Miramax, Paramount, Pixar and Universal Studios. MPLC also represent independent producers including Lionsgate, Momentum Pictures, HIT Entertainment, Ealing Studios, Metrodome, Eros International and Sony Pictures Classics as well as the major TV producers, including the BBC. However you must check prior to showing the feature via the themplc.co.uk or email ukinfo@mplc.com
If the MPLC licence does not cover the film and studio you are showing then a Public Video Screening Licence (PVSL) licence will be required. For more information please visit https://www.filmbankmedia.com/licences/pvsl/