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  • #16
    Relic, thank you for all that. Those are things i probably wouldn't have thought of, always gotah read the fine print. Looks like ill be pounding the phones if we go this route to make sure we keep everyone happy.

    Nick
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    • #17
      No problem. It was something no of us thought about really either and that's our day jobs. Just read the EULA and see, but I'm sure that if you were to email the community manager of a particular game company, I'm sure that they could put you in contact with the right person or at least point you in the right direction. Hell, they might even provide you with some stuff to give away if you ask nicely. CM's never pass up a chance to promote their games to captive audiences....
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      • #18
        another great idea.... you guys are awesome... here i had one idea and within a few hours ive got 10 thanks to all of you...
        Holy crap scaring people is fun!!!

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        • #19
          That's what we're here for. To discuss and help one and another.
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          • #20
            What about movie trailers? Are they under the same rules? You could get a collection of movie trailers and put them up their. Mix in your sponsor commercials and some indie stuff and you should have a great que line entertainment line up. Depending on how busy of a night you are having and how visible the screen is they wouldn't be able to watch a whole movie anyways.

            Just my 2 cents though...
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            • #21
              so to play music..u have to have a public performance grant.....how do wedding and bar djs and coverbands....get to do that... they have to get that also.....:?:

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              • #22
                Do you need a specific license to have Arcade machines at the end of the haunt?
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                • #23
                  Nightmare:
                  As for movie trailers go, those would be allowed because they are created for public display. You could download some of those from Apple and then play them on a screen with your sponsors mixed in.

                  HellRazzors:
                  Music is a tricky thing. It depends on the situation and how the music is being performed. Let's say that I work for one of the music agencies like BMI, ASCAP, SESAC, or SoundExchange. If I was out with my friends on a Saturday night at one of my local bars.

                  1. Let's say that there is a local DJ spinning music of artist like Snoop Dogg, Ozzy, Metallica, and some others (I didn't say he was good, just for examples). Unless that DJ has a Public Performance license, then he could be fined for every song he plays. Which could be a few hundred to a thousand dollars per song. This is because they must pay a royalty for the "Performance Rights" and for the "Mechanical Rights"

                  2. Let's say in this one, it's not a DJ but just the bar playing CD's over the speakers. Same thing. Unless they have a Public License, they can be fined for not paying the "Performance" and "Mechanical" rights.

                  3. Let's say that it's a local band playing a cover of whatever song. Again, the bar would need to pay a "Performance Right" royalty on the music, but not the mechanical. Because even thought it's being performed by someone else, it's still a copyrighted composition written by another artist. Therefore, if you perform it, you owe the original artist some money for their work. But because it's performed and not recorded, you don't owe the mechanical.

                  Performance Rights are royalties that are paid to the artist for the composition of the work they created.

                  Mechanical Rights are royalties that are paid to the recording engineers that mixed and recorded the song track for the artist.

                  These things are checked and monitored. When I was in college in Florida, I was at a local bar in Orlando. One night while a DJ was playing music, some guy walked up to him with the bar owner and made them stop. It was a guy that worked for BMI and just happen to be there with friends drinking. He asked to see the blanket and public performance license for the bar and when they didn't have one, he shut them down. I also imagine they both got a nasty bill from them too... I also ran several radio stations and had to pay these agencies. So I familiar with the rules and the DMCA. The rule is, "If you play, You have to Pay!"

                  Hope this helps clear things up.
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                  • #24
                    Originally posted by FablesStudios View Post
                    Do you need a specific license to have Arcade machines at the end of the haunt?
                    No. I would imagine that when you buy an "Arcade" machine, that the EULA would allow public use as that's what it's built for. But it would need to be an honest to God arcade machine and not just a arcade cabinet with a 360 thrown in it. That wouldn't be ok.
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                    • #25
                      real arcades all 400+ pounds of them....
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                      • #26
                        It is my understanding that if you contact most of the movie studios they have no problem providing trailers for you to show at your haunt. They might also provide posters and other materials. You may also contact you local movie theater for help.

                        Other ideas would be to run independent movies. Put out in the summer that you are going to view for the public these movies at your haunt. Set the deadline for submission to be before you open.

                        Let the public vote on the best one by setting up an area on your website. Find a sponsor to provide prize money and have a special veiwing on halloween night for the winner.

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                        • #27
                          Awesome idea....
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                          • #28
                            The cheeeeeeeeap & inexpensive way to do movies-

                            We recently started showing movies at our place too, but the movies we show at our place can't be found at the local video store! We basically record all the action going on in our haunted house season after season, make a DVD from it & play it on a tv somewhere up front. The majority of the time patrons assume what they are watching is LIVE & it gets them REALLY going! Of course we only show the better parts of the recorded footage, the lesser stuff gets edited out.

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                            Last edited by newhorror2010; 05-28-2010, 01:03 PM.
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                            • #29
                              the 1960's "night of the living dead" is public dommain. and some old movies but now and days the old movies still have rights to them.

                              i would say make your own home made horror movies so that way you can a void that.
                              it's ok... the dark has many faces you can't see..

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                              • #30
                                You could also intersperse interviews or short history clips of your unique characters from the haunt.

                                Or stage a 5-10min film of a Ghost Hunters international like piece. You could stage Supernatral stuff to happening in the haunt. Don't use them in the haunt. The people that saw the clip would be looking out for those events. You could then hit them with some other scare.

                                Your best bet would be to see if you have a film school in your town. If you can get on of the professors to have thier classes make horror clips for thier projects it would give you alot of material to work with. Just need to set the rules of what can be shown. The students would get a kick to just have thier projects shown in public.

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