[Videolib] Letters to projectionists and a computer saleman

[Michael May]

These are fun, if not authentic . . .

Stanley Kubrick's letter to projectionists on "Barry Lyndon"
http://somecamerunning.typepad.com/some_came_running/2011/06/test.html

An exasperated Sean Connery gives Steve Jobs a piece of his mind
http://scoopertino.com/exposed-the-imac-disaster-that-almost-was/

Mike

Michael May
Adult Services Librarian
Carnegie-Stout Public Library
360 West 11th Street
Dubuque, IA 52001-4697, USA
Phone: 563-589-4225 ext. 2244
Fax: 563-589-4217
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Re: [Videolib] New 108 spinner -- Know Your Rights

[Michael May]

There should be a "click for details" link for The Clash lyrics:

You have the right to free speech
As long as
You're not dumb enough to actually try it

Mike

Michael May
Adult Services Librarian
Carnegie-Stout Public Library
360 West 11th Street
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Phone: 563-589-4225 ext. 2244
Fax: 563-589-4217
Email: m...@dubuque.lib.ia.us



From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu 
[mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Brewer, Michael
Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2011 4:37 PM
To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu
Subject: [Videolib] FW: New 108 spinner

All,

Please take a look at the new Section 108 Spinner 2.0, which has just been 
released by the ALA Office for Information Technology Policy, and which I 
developed.  Your colleagues in ILL, Document Delivery, Digital Libraries, 
Special Collections and other areas may be interested.  This tool was created 
to help libraries and librarians to better understand and more programmatically 
take advantage of Section 108 of US Copyright Law.

http://www.districtdispatch.org/

http://librarycopyright.net/108spinner/

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks,

mb

Michael Brewer
University of Arizona Libraries
brew...@u.library.arizona.edu

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[Videolib] Are any of the academic librarians on Videolib involved with video asset management for your universities?

[Chris Lewis]

Here at American U, we now have the audiovisual department, Academic
Multimedia Services (faculty production support), New Media Center
(student production support), and my Media Services (my crowd) all
under the same roof and there's interest in having a central archive
for university-produced footage (or whatever they call it in the
digital realm). We had been planning to install a Final Cut Server to
manage this stuff but Apple discontinued that this week so I'm looking
for alternatives. Anybody have any to suggest?  Ideally I'd like to
find an off-the-shelf system that also yields at least thumbnail
images if not low-res preview clips and allows for a reasonable amount
of searchable metadata. I'm afraid Final Cut Server may have been the
only game in town.

-- 
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Media Librarian
American University Library
202.885.3257

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[Videolib] Fwd: Chronicle: Elfin Whimsy

[Brewer, Michael]

FYI

Sent from my iPad


U. of Michigan Tests Murky Waters of Copyright Law by Offering Digital Access 
to Some ‘Orphan’ Books

June 23, 2011, 7:31 pm

By Jeff Young

The University of Michigan has taken an unprecedented step into a murky area of 
copyright law in the name of making thousands of its library books available to 
campus users in digital form. At least one publishing official calls the new 
practice illegal, while others say it could help solve the thorny issue of 
so-called “orphan works,” books in copyright whose owners are unknown.


On Thursday the library announced that books in its digital collection that 
have been identified as orphans after a careful search for a copyright owner 
will be available for reading online—but only to users on campus. Hundreds of 
thousands of books in the library have been scanned as part of the university’s 
partnership with Google, which is working with several major libraries to build 
a comprehensive digital collection. The books are now searchable in a public 
online database, but full electronic text of the 
orphan books have never been shared with users because of concerns about 
whether copyright law allows such digital access.


“These books were meant to be read, and we want to make them easier to read,” 
said Paul Courant, dean of libraries at the University of Michigan, in an 
interview on Thursday. “All we’re doing is making them available to our 
students, faculty, and staff who could already come into the library and read 
these books. I don’t see why anybody would be against this.”

But at least one publishing official is already raising concerns about the plan.


“Mr. Courant may believe this step is justified under fair use, but as far as I 
know, there is nothing in either the copyright statute or the case law to 
justify such a sweeping claim,” said Peter Givler, executive director of the 
Association of American University Presses, in an e-mail. “We all know that 
orphan works are a problem, and we would all benefit from a good solution. The 
plain fact is, though, that their orphan status isn’t determined by the elfin 
whimsy of private parties, but federal law. It’s up to Congress to fix it, not 
Google or the University of Michigan.”

Mr. Courant bristled at the characterization of his library’s effort. “I plead 
not guilty of elfin whimsy,” he said, noting that the library has set up a 
careful, time-consuming, and expensive procedure to determine whether a book is 
truly orphaned—an effort it announced in 
May.




The university plans to make bibliographic information about books it 
identifies as orphans available on a public Web site, and if any publisher or 
copyright owner sees one of its books being used without permission and comes 
forward, librarians will work with them to resolve the issue. “We want the 
process to be extremely open and visible, with bright lights shining 
everywhere,” Mr. Courant said. The goal, he added, is to figure out a way to 
“do a reliable, robust job of tracking down the foster parents of these orphan 
works.”


He said he hopes that because most of the material is scholarly, or otherwise 
never had big sales commercially, that copyright owners who do emerge from the 
woodwork will agree to make the books available digitally for free under a 
Creative Commons license. “If somebody calls me up and tells me my Great Aunt 
Minnie published a monograph on how to play piano, and would I mind if it were 
used by Stanford University library, I’d say hot damn,” he said, noting that he 
would quickly agree to free access.


“My attorney says this is legitimate under fair use,” said Mr. Courant. “When 
people find ways of making things better for people without harming anybody 
else, I think they ought to do that. I really do.”


The electronic copies of the books are stored online in a joint effort with 
other universities called the HathiTrust Digital Library, which has a total of 
6.4 million books that are not in the public domain. Not all of those are 
orphans, but one recent estimate found that more than two million of those 
books are orphans. Such books are effectively in digital limbo because their 
owners cannot be found to ask permission for digital use.

The university expects the first orphan e-books to become available to 
on-campus readers through the new effort starting in October.


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Re: [Videolib] FW: New 108 spinner

[John Vallier]

I'm writing to thank Michael for his ongoing clarification of 108 and work on 
making the spinner available. I know some on this list may find it hard to 
believe that (legally speaking) financial interests don't always preclude 
ethical ones (e.g., preserving our cultural heritage), but these folks 
shouldn't be too concerned about the imagined deleterious effects of 108. In a 
few instances when we @ UW Seattle preserved rare and orphaned films, we have 
had distributors re-use portions of these titles for new for-profit works (and 
these distributors did their own extensive search for rights holders to be sure 
they were being compensated). However--and this may upset some of the  anti-108 
and anti-fair use contingent on this list--in some cases our preservation 
efforts (again made possible by 108) led to new *non-profit* works such as this 
student's documentary: 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7Px39IXGwE 
She may not have made any money for distributors making this work, but she 
ended up placing first for National History Day in the Senior Individual 
Documentary category. If it wasn't for 108, we wouldn't have been able to 
provide footage.

This next year we are going to ramp up our efforts to preserve/make accessible 
more of our rare films and videos. While digitizing, we are also going to 
screen and broadcast the films on the internet (more about this project is 
available here http://bit.ly/kepuLM).

John
http://lib.washington.edu/media
http://faculty.washington.edu/vallier




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Re: [Videolib] FW: New 108 spinner

[Jessica Rosner]

but would you preserve a work if a copyright holder specifically told you
not to? I ask because again because a major figure in library preservation
project who also
digitizes and streams everything his institution ever bought ( not sure why
I won't name him but for the moment I won't) told a librarian at ALA event
that the library should make NO EFFORT to contact a rights holder even if
they knew exactly who they were and how to find them, because they might
interfere with such a preservation. On top of being illegal this is also
really stupid. There have been more than a few instances in the world of
film preservation where archives failed to check around and different
institutions spent a lot of money preserving the same title. Again I am not
pulling this stuff out of thin air and I think everyone here knows there are
many institutions making illegal copies of feature  films as well as
streaming them, not because it is the only way to see them, but because it
is cheaper than actually paying a rights holder for their work.

On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 2:36 PM, John Vallier wrote:

> I'm writing to thank Michael for his ongoing clarification of 108 and work
> on making the spinner available. I know some on this list may find it hard
> to believe that (legally speaking) financial interests don't always preclude
> ethical ones (e.g., preserving our cultural heritage), but these folks
> shouldn't be too concerned about the imagined deleterious effects of 108. In
> a few instances when we @ UW Seattle preserved rare and orphaned films, we
> have had distributors re-use portions of these titles for new for-profit
> works (and these distributors did their own extensive search for rights
> holders to be sure they were being compensated). However--and this may upset
> some of the  anti-108 and anti-fair use contingent on this list--in some
> cases our preservation efforts (again made possible by 108) led to new
> *non-profit* works such as this student's documentary:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7Px39IXGwE
> She may not have made any money for distributors making this work, but she
> ended up placing first for National History Day in the Senior Individual
> Documentary category. If it wasn't for 108, we wouldn't have been able to
> provide footage.
>
> This next year we are going to ramp up our efforts to preserve/make
> accessible more of our rare films and videos. While digitizing, we are also
> going to screen and broadcast the films on the internet (more about this
> project is available here http://bit.ly/kepuLM).
>
> John
> http://lib.washington.edu/media
> http://faculty.washington.edu/vallier
>
>
>
>
> VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues
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> between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and
> distributors.
>



-- 
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Media Consultant
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212-627-1785 (land line)
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[Videolib] VRT Guide to ALA, update

[videolib]

VRT Guide to ALA:  Update and Correction
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[Videolib] How do you know when you’ve become an artist?]

[ghandman]

 Original Message 
Subject:  Re: [Videonews] How do you know when you’ve become an artist?
From: ghand...@library.berkeley.edu
Date: Fri, June 24, 2011 4:31 pm
To:   "Video Library News" 
--

Problem isn't solved if the expensive title they've taken out and lost is
out of distribution.

All depends on the mission of your collection (and whether preservation
for long-haul to support teaching and research is part of it)

Gary (who's cool in Berkeley)





> At the University of Southern California we have in our collection
> at least 750 documentary films costing $250 or more. And no effetism
> here. All such films fully circulate. And if a student happens
> to lose such an item then said student is fully obliged to reimburse the
> costs of the film. Problem solved--and it is a policy that seems
> very much to work for us.
>
> And greetings from ALA and New Orleans!
>
> Cheers!
> Anthony
>
> ***
> Anthony E. Anderson
> Social Studies and Arts & Humanities Librarian
> Von KleinSmid Library
> University of Southern California
> Los Angeles, CA 90089-0182
> (213) 740-1190  antho...@usc.edu
> "Wind, regen, zon, of kou,
> Albert Cuyp ik hou van jou."
> *
>
> - Original Message -
> From: jwoo 
> Date: Friday, June 24, 2011 12:33 pm
> Subject: Re: [Videonews] How do you know when you’ve become an artist?
> To: Video Library News 
>
>> I like this video a lot, but because the institutional price is
>> $250, it's in the "rare book" section of my library and students
>> never bother to page it for in-library viewing.  If the library
>> were able to purchase a home-use copy for $30, the video could be
>> placed in the circulating section, and I'm sure many more students
>> would enjoy and benefit from the production.  IMHO, this is how
>> filmmakers shoot themselves in the foot.  Very few people are going
>> to see their work if it's priced for effetes only.
>>
>>
>> On Jun 23, 2011, at 1:54 PM, Working Title Info wrote:
>>
>> >WORKING TITLE: Career, Identity and the American Artist
>> >
>> >WORKING TITLE offers insight and inspiration to students of all
>> ages who aspire to follow the courageous path to professional
>> careers in the arts. By offering a rare and honest glimpse into the
>> daily lives of five diverse visual and performing artists, the film
>> asks important questions, from the practical (how do you support
>> yourself as a professional artist?), to the personal (how might
>> this career choice affect your personal relationships and other
>> life choices?) to the philosophical (how do you know you are an
>> artist, and how do you make peace with that knowledge and come to
>> embrace it as central to your identity?). This film is a "must-
>> have" for arts educators, and it gave the undergraduate students at
>> my university new-found confidence to nurture and celebrate their
>> artistic aspirations. ~ Paula Birnbaum, Ph.D., Assistant Professor,
>> Department of Art + Architecture, University of San Francisco.
>> >
>>
>
> VIDEONEWS is an electronic clearinghouse for information about new
> services, products, resources, and programs of interest to video
> librarians and archivists, educators, and others involved in the
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>


Gary Handman
Director
Media Resources Center
Moffitt Library
UC Berkeley

510-643-8566
ghand...@library.berkeley.edu
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC

"I have always preferred the reflection of life to life itself."
--Francois Truffaut


Gary Handman
Director
Media Resources Center
Moffitt Library
UC Berkeley

510-643-8566
ghand...@library.berkeley.edu
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC

"I have always preferred the reflection of life to life itself."
--Francois Truffaut


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Re: [Videolib] How do you know when you’ve become an artist?]

[Jessica Rosner]

As someone who works with independent documentary filmmakers, let me tell
you they would be THRILLED to sell their films at $25 or $30 if they had a
chance in hell of selling 5 times as many as they would at $250. The subject
matter is generally geared towards the academic community or at least not to
the popular topics that sell in the thousands and they have a lot of
expenses to recoup and it is a bitch to distribute. These are simply not the
same as the more popular $19.95 to $29.95 videos you will find at the retail
level and keep in mind the distributor only gets back 60% or so on thing
sold through third parties like Amazon. I assure you if 1500 institutions
would actually buy a wonderful series of films on the post genocide justice
system in Rwanda or even one on Gerrymandering ( to plug the ones I deal
with) the directors would be over the moon to sell them for $25 knowing more
people could see them. When good documentaries are carried by public
libraries at a fraction of the rate of bad action movies then you will see a
huge drop in prices, heck if just one in every 500 university libraries
bought them you would see the same.

On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 7:31 PM,  wrote:

>
>
>  Original Message 
> Subject:  Re: [Videonews] How do you know when you’ve become an artist?
> From: ghand...@library.berkeley.edu
> Date: Fri, June 24, 2011 4:31 pm
> To:   "Video Library News" 
> --
>
> Problem isn't solved if the expensive title they've taken out and lost is
> out of distribution.
>
> All depends on the mission of your collection (and whether preservation
> for long-haul to support teaching and research is part of it)
>
> Gary (who's cool in Berkeley)
>
>
>
>
>
> > At the University of Southern California we have in our collection
> > at least 750 documentary films costing $250 or more. And no effetism
> > here. All such films fully circulate. And if a student happens
> > to lose such an item then said student is fully obliged to reimburse the
> > costs of the film. Problem solved--and it is a policy that seems
> > very much to work for us.
> >
> > And greetings from ALA and New Orleans!
> >
> > Cheers!
> > Anthony
> >
> > ***
> > Anthony E. Anderson
> > Social Studies and Arts & Humanities Librarian
> > Von KleinSmid Library
> > University of Southern California
> > Los Angeles, CA 90089-0182
> > (213) 740-1190  antho...@usc.edu
> > "Wind, regen, zon, of kou,
> > Albert Cuyp ik hou van jou."
> > *
> >
> > - Original Message -
> > From: jwoo 
> > Date: Friday, June 24, 2011 12:33 pm
> > Subject: Re: [Videonews] How do you know when you’ve become an artist?
> > To: Video Library News 
> >
> >> I like this video a lot, but because the institutional price is
> >> $250, it's in the "rare book" section of my library and students
> >> never bother to page it for in-library viewing.  If the library
> >> were able to purchase a home-use copy for $30, the video could be
> >> placed in the circulating section, and I'm sure many more students
> >> would enjoy and benefit from the production.  IMHO, this is how
> >> filmmakers shoot themselves in the foot.  Very few people are going
> >> to see their work if it's priced for effetes only.
> >>
> >>
> >> On Jun 23, 2011, at 1:54 PM, Working Title Info wrote:
> >>
> >> >WORKING TITLE: Career, Identity and the American Artist
> >> >
> >> >WORKING TITLE offers insight and inspiration to students of all
> >> ages who aspire to follow the courageous path to professional
> >> careers in the arts. By offering a rare and honest glimpse into the
> >> daily lives of five diverse visual and performing artists, the film
> >> asks important questions, from the practical (how do you support
> >> yourself as a professional artist?), to the personal (how might
> >> this career choice affect your personal relationships and other
> >> life choices?) to the philosophical (how do you know you are an
> >> artist, and how do you make peace with that knowledge and come to
> >> embrace it as central to your identity?). This film is a "must-
> >> have" for arts educators, and it gave the undergraduate students at
> >> my university new-found confidence to nurture and celebrate their
> >> artistic aspirations. ~ Paula Birnbaum, Ph.D., Assistant Professor,
> >> Department of Art + Architecture, University of San Francisco.
> >> >
> >>
> >
> > VIDEONEWS is an electronic clearinghouse for information about new
> > services, products, resources, and programs of interest to video
> > librarians and archivists, educators, and others involved in the
> > selection, acquisition, programming, and preservation of video materials
> > in non-profit settings. The list is open to all interest individuals and
> > list submissions are unmediated. However the list owner reserves the
> right
> > to revoke subscr