November 4, 2009 – ALEXANDRIA, VA – CMAA and the Motion Picture Licensing Corporation®(MPLC) are pleased to announce an agreement to license the performance of motion pictures at the CMAA 83rd World Conference on Club Management to be held February 8-13, 2010, in San Diego, CA, and at other educational sessions throughout the year. This is the first agreement of its kind for an association to license its conference speakers to use motion pictures scenes. The Umbrella License® agreement allows speakers at association-wide conference sessions to use motion pictures from more than 400 MPLC-affiliated studios and producers.
“This represents a tremendous value for our Association,” says CMAA Senior Vice President for Professional Development Jason Koenigsfeld, Ph.D. “Multi-media presentations engage our members in ways simple PowerPoint slides cannot. The agreement with the MPLC allows our speakers and trainers to be more creative in bringing their presentations and sessions to life. This also ensures we are in full compliance with copyright law.”
“The MPLC is delighted that CMAA acknowledges the importance of intellectual property rights,” says MPLC Licensing Division President Sal Laudicina. “More importantly, the license will allow for the flexibility of using the magic of movies to enhance and provide a more engaging and entertaining training experience.”
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About CMAA – The Club Managers Association of America is the professional Association for managers of membership clubs. CMAA has close to 7,000 members across all classifications. Manager members run more than 3,000 country, golf, city, athletic, faculty, yacht, town and military clubs. The objectives of the Association are to promote and advance friendly relations among persons connected with the management of clubs and other associations of similar character; to encourage the education and advancement of members; and to assist club officers and members, through their managers, to secure the utmost in efficient and successful operations.
About MPLC – The Motion Picture Licensing Corporation was established more than 20 years ago by motion picture executives to provide public access to the work of the creative community without copyright infringement. The MPLC is the leader in motion picture copyright compliance, supporting legal access across five continents and more than 20 countries. The MPLC provides an Umbrella License© to more than 250,000 facilities in the United States and more than 450,000 worldwide.
Contact:
John Scott
(703) 739-9500
john.scott@cmaa.org
www.cmaa.org
