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Today, every agreement presented to a producer by a foreign sales agent or domestic distributor has the word 'Internet' innocently buried among all the other rights producers are being asked to give up. Without careful editorial refinements, that single word grants the distributor the right to send a film out over the Internet for any purpose whatsoever, to whomever they choose. Do not blithely sign away those rights without giving thought to several key issues.
February 1, 2004

Today, every agreement presented to a producer by a foreign sales agent or domestic distributor has the word 'Internet' innocently buried among all the other rights producers are being asked to give up. Without careful editorial refinements, that single word grants the distributor the right to send a film out over the Internet for any purpose whatsoever, to whomever they choose. Do not blithely sign away those rights without giving thought to several key issues.

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