Public performance rights

NOTE: Not all films sold by these producers and distributors may have public performance rights, but all listed companies sell some materials with public performance rights. Some sell the same materials with and without such rights. Order carefully and note price differentials. For those companies who never grant public performance rights, click here. For off-air taping rights, go to Off-air taping rights for cable/satellite channels.

	actiVision (including Dr. Lee Salk's Super Sitters) 857 W. Webster Ave. Chicago, IL 60614 773-404-0030
	AGC/United Learning (Altschul Group) 1560 Sherman Avenue, Suite 100 Evanston, Illinois 60201 800-323-9084
	Agency for Instructional Technology Box A 1800 North Stonelake Drive Bloomington, IN 47402-0120 800-457-4509 http://www.ait.net/
	AIMS Multimedia 9710 DeSoto Avenue Chatsworth, CA 91311 800-367-2467, ext. 448 http://www.aimsmultimedia.com/
	Allied Video P. O. Box 702618 Tulsa, OK 74170 800-926-5892 www.alliedvd.com/
	Ambrose Video Publishing, Inc. 28 West 44th Street Suite 1115 New York, NY 10036 800-526-4663 www.ambrosevideo.com/
	Annenberg/CPB 401 9th Street, NW Washington, DC 20004-2036 202-879-9648 http://www.learner.org/
	ArtMattan Productions 535 Cathedral Parkway Suite 14B New York, NY 10025 http://www.africanfilm.com/
	Attainment Company PO Box 930160 Verona, WI 53593-0160 800-327-4269 www.attainmentcompany.com/
	BFA (See Phoenix Films)

	Bullfrog Films (all titles except “home video versions”) P.O. Box 149 Oley, PA 19547 800-543-3764 http://http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/
	California Newsreel 149 Ninth Street San Francisco, CA 94103 415-621-6196 http://http://www.newsreel.org/
	Cambridge Documentary Films, Inc. P.O. Box 390385 Cambridge, MA 02139-0004 617-484-3993 http://www1.shore.net/~cdf/
	Cambridge Educational P.O. Box 931 Monmouth Junction, NJ 08852-0931 888-744-0100 http://http://www.cambridgeeducational.com/

	Chip Taylor Communications (discount, no-rights versions available) 2 East View Drive Derry, NH 03038 800-876-CHIP (2447) http://www.chiptaylor.com/index.htm
	Choices Video (see World Almanac Education)
	Churchill Films (see Clearvue/EAV)
	The Cinema Guild 130 Madison Avenue, 2nd Floor New York, NY 10019-7038 800-723-5522 http://www.cinemaguild.com/
	Classroom Video 4739 University Way, NE, Suite 1606 Seattle, WA 98105 800-665-4121 http://http://www.classroomvideo.com/
	CLEARVUE/eav 6465 North Avondale Avenue Chicago, Illinois. 60631-1996 800-253-2788 http://www.clearvue.com/index.html
	Contemporary Drama Service (see Meriweather Publishing, Ltd.) http://www.contemporarydrama.com/
	Coronet (see Phoenix Films)
	Crystal Productions 800-255-8629 www.crystalproductions.com
	CVLI 800-462-8855 For licensing churches for public performances of entertainment video http://www.cvli.com/
	Design Video Communications (See First Light Video)
	Disney Educational Productions (see website for specific limitations) 3800 W. Alameda Avenue, 16th Floor Burbank, CA 91505 818-569-5991 http://www.edustation.com/
	DK (Dorling Kindersley) Publishing, Inc. 95 Madison Avenue New York, NY 10016 212-213-4800 http://www.dk.com/
	Educational Video Network, Inc. 1401 19th St. Huntsville, TX 77340 800-762-0060 http://www.edvidnet.com/
	Ergo Video (for additional fee) PO Box 2037 Teaneck NJ 07666 201-692-0404 http://www.jewishvideo.com/
	Fanlight Productions 196 Washington St, Suite 2 Boston, MA 02131 800-937-4113 http://www.fanlight.com/
	Films for the Humanities and Sciences PO Box 2053 Princeton, NJ 08543-2053 800-257-5126 http://www.films.com
	First Light Video (for non-revenue uses) 2321 Abbot Kinney Blvd. Venice, CA 90291 800-262-8862 www.firstlightvideo.com/
	First Run Features 32 Court Street, Suite 2107 Brooklyn, NY 11201 718-488-8900 www.frif.com/
	Forest Glen TV Productions (for non-revenue uses in schools and colleges) P.O. Box 101823 Fort Worth, Texas 76185-1823 817-920-9662 texashistory.com

Goldhil Home Video
137 East Thousand Oaks Blvd. Suite 207
Thousand Oaks, CA 91360
800-250-8760
www.goldhil.com/

GPN (Reading Rainbow and others)
P.O. Box 80669
Lincoln, NE 68501-0669
800-228-4630
http://gpn.unl.edu/index.html
* Note: only for titles bought directly from the producer. Reading Rainbow titles bought from jobbers do not include public performance rights.

Guidance Associates
100 South Bedford Road, Suite 120
Mount Kisco, NY 10549
800-431-1242
www.guidanceassociates.com

Heritage Productions
1010-307 Nicholwood Dr.
Raleigh NC, 27605
919-836-0087
http://www.heritageproductions.com/

Home Vison (see Public Media)

Icarus Films (see First Run Features)

	Insight Media (limited titles) 2162 Broadway New York, NY 10024-0621 800-233-9910 http://www.insight-media.com/win.html
	Instructional Video (all except those marked HUO “home use only”) 2219 C Street Lincoln, NE 68502 800.228.0164 www.insvideo.com/
	International Historic Films, Inc. (most titles) P.O. Box 29035 Chicago, IL 60629 USA 773-927-2900 http://ihffilm.com/info.html
	January Productions 210 Sixth Avenue Hawthorne, NJ 07507

	Keep America Beautiful 1010 Washington Boulevard Stamford, CT 06901 203-323-8987, ext. 19 http://www.kab.org/
	Knowledge Unlimited P.O. Box 52 (800) 356-2303 Madison, WI 53701 608-836-6660 www.ku.com/
	Learning Seed 330 Telser Road Lake Zurich, IL 60047 800-634-4941 www.learningseed.com/
	Library Video Company (Schlessinger Media video titles only) 7 E. Wynnewood Road Wynnewood, PA 19096 800-843-3620 http://http://www.libraryvideo.com/
	Library Video Network 320 York Road Towson, MD 21204 800-441-TAPE http://www.lvn.org/
	Live Oak Media P.O. Box 652 Pine Plains, NY 12567 800-788-1121 http://www.liveoakmedia.com/
	Live Wire Media 273 Ninth St. San Francisco, CA 94103 800-359-5437 www.livewiremedia.com/
	Lucerne Media 37 Ground Pine Road Morris Plains, NJ 07950 800-341-2293 http://www.lucernemedia.com
	Maypole Studios 18 Bartlett Square Boston, MA 02130 877-622-5226 http://www.zevik.org/

	Media for the Arts (limited titles) 360 Thames Street, Suite 2N Newport, Rhode Island 02840 800-554-6008 http://art-history.com/
	Meriwether Publishing, Ltd. Box 7710 Colorado Springs CO 80933 719-594-4422 www.meriwetherpublishing.com
	Motion Picture Licensing Corp. 800-462-8855 For licensing non-public schools, daycare centers, YMCAs, etc. http://www.mplc.com/
	Movie Licensing USA 201 South Jefferson Avenue St. Louis, MO 63103-2579 877-321-1300 www.movlic.com For licensing public schools, public libraries, etc.
	National Film Board of Canada 350 Fifth Avenue, Suite 4820 New York, NY 10118 212-629-8890
	http://www.nfbc.ca/ Watch for differing prices on some titles

National Geographic Educational
School Publishing
P.O. Box 10597
Des Moines, IA 50340-0597
800-368-2728
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/education/
* Note: only for titles bought directly from the producer. National Geographic titles bought from jobbers do not include public performance rights.

	New Dimension Media 680 North Lake Shore Dr, Suite 900 Chicago, IL 60611 800-288-4456 http://www.ndmquestar.com/
	New Day Films 22-D Hollywood Avenue Hohokus NJ 07423 USA 888-367-9154 http://www.newday.com/
	USANoodlehead Network 107 Intervale Ave. Burlington, VT 05401 800-639-5680 http://www.noodlehead.com/
	Partridge Films (see Survival Anglia)
	PBS Video (all lines except PBS Home Video) 1320 Braddock Place Alexandria, VA 22314 800-424-7963 http://www.pbs.org/ * Note: only for titles bought directly from the producer. PBS titles bought from jobbers do not include public performance rights.
	Phoenix Learning Group (including Phoenix, BFA and Coronet) (most products) 2349 Chaffee Drive St. Louis, MO 63146 800-221-1274 http://www.phoenixlearninggroup.com/
	Princeton Book Company P.O. Box 831 Hightstown, New Jersey 08520-0831 http://www.dancehorizons.com/
	Public Media (public performance rights available on some titles for extra fee) http://www.publicmedia.com/
	Pyramid Media, Inc. P.O.Box 1048 Santa Monica, CA 90406 800-421-2304 http://http://www.pyramidmedia.com/
	Questar, Inc. 680 N. Lake Shore Dr., Ste 900 Chicago, IL 60611 312-397-2156 http://http://www.questar1.com/
	Revels, Inc. (videos only) Department R 80 Mount Auburn Street Watertown, Massachusetts 02472-3930 617-972-8300 http://www.revels.org/langstaff_video.html
	Rich-Heape Films, Inc. (limited titles) 5952 Royal Lane, Suite 254-4 Dallas, Texas 75230 888-600-2922 http://www.richheape.com/

	RMi Media Productions www.rmimedia.com/
	Scholastic, Inc. (all titles except those marked “Home Use Only”) 555 Broadway New York, NY 10012-3999 800-724-6527 http://www.scholastic.com
	Shopware, Inc. P.O. Box 921 Monmouth Junction, NJ 08852-0921 304-744-9323 http://www.shopware-usa.com/
	Spoken Arts 195 South White Rock Road Holmes, New York 12531 800-326-4090 http://www.spokenartsmedia.com/

Sunburst Communications
101 Castleton Street, Suite 201
Pleasantville, NY 10570
800-338-3457, ext. 2268
http://www.sunburstvm.com/

	SuperSitters (See actiVision)
	Survival Anglia, Ltd. (for a fee, on a very limited basis)
	SVE & Churchill Media 6677 North Northwest Highway Chicago, IL 60631 800-829-1900 http://www.svemedia.com
	Swank, Inc. 201 S. Jefferson Avenue St. Louis, Missouri 63103-2579 800-876-5577 www.swank.com Licensing for individual showings of movies by a limited list of producers, including Disney. Expurgated movies (R rated movies with objectionable material removed.)
	Thinking allowed 2560 9th Street, Suite 123 Berkeley CA 94710 800/999-4415 http://www.thinkingallowed.com/
	TMW (Tell Me Why) Media Group (for non-revenue uses) 2321 Abbot Kinney Blvd Venice, CA 90291 800-262-8862 www.tmwmedia.com/
	United Learning (see AGC/United Learning)
	United Wildlife (see Survival Anglia)
	University of California Extension Center for Media and Independent Learning 2000 Center Street, Fourth Floor Berkeley, CA 94704-1223 510-642-0460 http://www-cmil.unex.berkeley.edu/media/
	Video Aided Instruction 485-34 South Broadway Hicksville, NY 11801-5071 800-238-1512 http://www.videoaidedinstruction.com/
	The Video Project 200 Estates Dr. Ben Lomond, CA 95005 800-4-PLANET http://www.videoproject.org
	VisionQuest Video (see TMW Video Group)
	Weston Woods (all titles except those marked “Home use only”) 143 Main St. Norwalk, CT 06851 800-243-5020 www.scholastic.com/westonwoods
	World Almanac Education 369 S. Doheny Drive PMB #1105 Beverly Hills, CA 90211 310-358-0885 http://www.worldalmanacvideo.com/

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Page last updated on April 1, 2008. This information supplements a list included in Copyright for Schools: a Practical Guide, 4th edition (Linworth Publishing). This site maintained by Carol Simpson, Ed.D., University of North Texas School Library and Information Sciences (ret.), Denton, TX.