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Single Title Movie Licence

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Contact Information

Motion Picture Licensing Company
102 Block B1 Tokai Village Centre

Vans Road Dreyersdal Cape Town

7945 South Africa



Tel: +27 21 465 6449



 

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Libraries
The library has always served as the focal point of the community. Now more than ever, public libraries are using films to increase traffic, compliment book clubs, enhance children's programmes and provide a free service to patrons and study groups during times of economic hardship. The Umbrella Licence provides exclusive content from over 850 Hollywood Studios and premium independent film and TV producers so there is unlimited choice of content available, including children's, documentary, foreign, and specialty producers.

Coach Operators
The use of film and TV entertainment through DVD, Blu-ray and downloads is fast becoming commonplace onboard coaches as a simple hassle free solution. Customers can enjoy the latest Hollywood Blockbusters as a means to overcome the monotony of countless motorway miles and turn what may be a mundane forgettable experience into a memorable one. It’s no coincidence that members of ‘The Guild of British Coach Operators’ are MPLC licence holders. Films and TV shows are also a welcome distraction for the driver resting in-between tours. Whether it's a holiday or special event, the MPLC provides the licence solution for your business needs.

Youth Clubs
We know films, TV shows and cartoons can be used as one of the many activities you may like to offer. They may be enjoyed as treats or simply as quiet/down time. Film can also be used to positively educate and help encourage and stimulate as an extension of the more traditional activities as well as great way to keep young people engaged with their friends, with their local community and with current affairs.

Bars & Restaurants
The use of films and TV shows, whether broadcast on TV, on home entertainment DVD/Blu-ray or viewed from the internet can be a great way to entertain your customers as well as bringing additional style and ambience to your bar or restaurant. It can also offer a competitive advantage with customers remembering the overall comfort and quality of their experience. Providing entertainment for adults or children while they wait can add a much needed respite for busy parents. Films can also be a fantastic inspiration for trends and style.

Activity Centres
We know films, TV shows and cartoons, whether broadcast on TV, on home entertainment DVD/Blu-ray or viewed from the internet can be used to enhance and supplement the many activities of a commercial childcare setting. It can also offer a competitive advantage with customers remembering the overall quality of their child’s experience. Providing entertainment can also add a much needed respite for busy parents.

Film Clubs - The MPLC Movie Licence
Film Societies, Film Clubs and Community Cinemas traditionally complained about the complicated licensing available to them. Now, licensing your event is simple with MPLC. Use your own DVDs and apply using our simple 4 step guide. Click the MORE INFO button.

Merchant Vessels & Oil Platforms
When working and living in a remote area for extended periods of time, simple comforts like a good book or film or TV show can be a welcome form of release and escape. Whether on land or sea, the legal need for a licence remains the same.

Campgrounds
The use of films and TV shows, whether broadcast on TV, on home entertainment DVD/Blu-ray or viewed from the internet can be a great way to entertain your customers while they wait or relax at your campground. It can also offer a competitive advantage with customers remembering the overall quality of their experience.

Conference Centres & Museums
Whether you operate a seasonal or year round facility, the MPLC has a variety of licensing options that meet your entertainment and exhibition needs, with a low cost solution. Films and TV shows can do more than simply enhance a presentation, or add movement and pace as a themed background - they can help create a more engaging and entertaining experience that holds an audience's attention.

Corporations & Training Programmes
Now more than ever, corporations and trainers are discovering that visual media enhances corporate environments and training programmes. Films and TV shows educate, illustrate, motivate, entertain, and very often inspire. Whether films or TV shows are used for diversity training or as a motivational tool for your sales team, the use of motion pictures during training and other programmes is proven to increase the retention level of information among participants.

Training & Development Professionals
Now more than ever, corporations and trainers are discovering that visual media enhances corporate environments and training programmes. Films and TV shows can educate, illustrate, motivate, entertain and very often inspire. Whether films or TV shows are used for diversity training or as a motivational tool for your sales team, the use of motion pictures during training and other programmes is proven to increase the retention of information among participants. The MPLC Umbrella Licence allows you to utilise these valuable sales and training tools while ensuring copyright compliance for all employees.

Retail Stores & Waiting Areas
The use of films and TV shows can be a great way to entertain your clients while waiting as well as bringing additional style and ambience to your store. It can also offer a competitive advantage with clients remembering the overall comfort and quality of their experience. Providing entertainment for children or adults while they wait can add a much needed respite for busy parents. The use of film and TV shows can help demonstrate the features of electrical products in the sales process.

Government
Local, District or Country Councils of all sizes benefit from the security of copyright compliance that an MPLC Umbrella Licence brings. Whether a blanket licence for all services or for a selection of public care homes, community centres, drop in clubs, schools, libraries, prison or youth clubs, all government departments can benefit from a low cost licence option.

Healthcare Facilities
There are positive benefits films and TV shows can bring as one of the many activities offered to residents of care, nursing and sheltered schemes. These can be enjoyed with friends and help encourage use of the communal lounge, generating a social hub. The use of film can also be a great way to reconnect people, so helping with issues such as isolation and boredom. It is commonly accepted as a trigger for mental stimulation and increased wellbeing and many care homes are developing film therapy as an extension of the more traditional care activities. In other areas of healthcare film and TV shows can entertain and enhance a patients experience whether in care for a few hours, a few days or for full time residential care.

Hotels
The use of films and TV shows, whether broadcast on TV, on home entertainment DVD/Blu-ray or viewed from the internet can be a great way to entertain your guest while they wait or relax as well as bringing additional style and ambience to your hotel. It can also offer a competitive advantage with customers remembering the overall comfort and quality of their experience.

Gym, Health & Leisure Club
We know the use of films and TV shows, whether broadcast on TV, on home entertainment DVD/Blu-ray or viewed from the internet can be a great way to entertain your members. This can this can be used as an addition to the normal activities of the club and help generate a social hub.

Public Speakers & Industry Conferences
Conference Organisers and Public Speakers understand that movie scenes have the power to bring a presentation to life. The magic of films and TV shows allows a presenter to stand out from the crowd and unleash his or her creativity without limitations. Films and TV shows can do more than simply enhance a presentation, they can help create a more engaging and entertaining experience that holds an audience's attention.

Private Membership Clubs
We know the use of film and TV shows can be one of the many activities you may like to offer your members. This can this can be used as an addition to the normal activities of the club and help generate a social hub.

Child Care Creche & Nurseries
We know films, TV shows and cartoons, whether broadcast on TV, on home entertainment DVD/Blu-ray or viewed from the internet, can be used as one of the many activities you may like to offer children. They may be enjoyed as treats, at wet play or simply as quiet/down time during or at the end of a day. Film can also be used to positively educate and help encourage and stimulate children as an extension of the more traditional activities.

Communal Living Facilities
Apartments, condominiums, manufactured housing, retirement and master planned communities all enjoy the types of neighborly activities and events that bring residents together and foster a sense of community. Movies are an easy, affordable way to provide entertainment to residents of all ages. However, exhibitions within common areas such as outdoor spaces, clubhouses, recreation and/or community rooms are considered "public" by law, and require a license whether two or twenty residents are present.

Religious Organisations
The MPLC partnered with Christian Copyright Licensing International (CCLI), to create Christian Video Licensing International (CVLI). The MPLC has long been the leader in public performance licensing for movies, while CCLI is a respected pioneer in music copyright licensing services for churches. CVLI was created to serve the video licensing needs of the faith-based community with a simple, affordable licence. The result was the CVLI Video Licence which works just like the Umbrella Licence, it simply has a different name. Mosques, Temples and Synagogues continue to be licensed through the MPLC.

Schools
While almost all exhibitions outside of the home require a licence, some educational screenings are exempt. This exemption is narrowly defined and applies only for educational use where the content is shown in the classroom, as part of the curriculum course or study programme. All other school showings require a separate licence. Video uses in your school or campus that are subject to copyright law, include, but are not limited to: rainy day recess, before or after school programmes, parent-teacher organisation events, extracurricular programmes, film clubs, and activities. Boarding schools face the additional challenge of ensuring copyright compliance within common areas of dormitories as these spaces are considered "public".

All state schools in England are covered by the Department for Education nationally for a number of copyright licences, including for the MPLC. In Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland licences are held either directly by the school/academy or through a local authorities block licence.

For Independent Schools in England & Wales we have a partnership with The Independent Association of Prep Schools (IAPS) who administer the issuing the MPLC Umbrella Licence.
  Further details can be found at: https://www.iaps.org.uk/about

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