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DVDs are purchased subject to the legal restriction that they are to be used for private, home use only unless otherwise permitted by the copyright owner. Playing a DVD outside of your home, and particularly within a business environment, means you are publicly communicating it and you need permission to do that. We provide that permission on behalf of our represented producer clients.

Just like DVDs, online streaming and paid download services are all restricted by their terms and conditions to private, home use only. Copyright owners don’t give these services the right to publicly perform their works, so those services can’t extend those rights to you. But we can, and that’s why we exist.

Unauthorized public communication of audiovisual or cinematographic works is an infringement of the copyright owner’s exclusive right. Depending on the circumstances, penalties for such infringements can include imprisonment for up to 4 years, a fine of up to 800,000 baht, or both.

The fees for an Absolute-NT Screening License™ vary depending on the circumstances of the intended market and the particular usage(s) but are purposefully modest and reasonable, intended to serve the “long view” purpose of raising awareness about intellectual property rights while still compensating creators for the public’s use and enjoyment of their works. We seek to permit, rather than prohibit, the public consumption of our clients’ filmed entertainment on terms that are fair and affordable.

According to the Thai Copyright Act, it doesn’t matter whether you assess charges, either directly or indirectly, for showing filmed entertainment or whether that activity is just an occasional, secondary part of your operations. The public communication of movies or television programs still requires permission from the copyright owner and we grant those permissions on behalf of our represented producer clients.

Audiovisual and cinematographic works are protected under Thai law regardless of whether any sounds accompany them. You need permission from the copyright owner to communicate a work publicly, even if the sound is turned off, or whether you play the entire work or only part of it.

There are no exceptions under Thai law allowing public or private schools, at any level of education or for any purpose, to show movies or television programs for the purpose of instruction or otherwise.

We enable the use and enjoyment of our represented titles in just about any non-theatrical public environment you can think of. While we are not involved with theatrical distribution and leave cineplexes and traditional movie theaters to be licensed as they always have been, market operators and service providers across Thailand in the hospitality, health care, transportation, education, government services, and the retail sectors among others can now screen movies for their customers legally through our services.