[Videolib] Short Social Issue Video Recommendations
California Newsreel is soliciting recommendations of exemplary, short (from 1 to 10 minute) social issue films/videos for a compilation program to be streamed free of charge for a month in Fall, 2014. This program will form part of a larger initiative to draw the attention of documentary students and practitioners to short-form work as an appropriate and economical vehicle for activist media today. Country of origin, production date and specific issue are less important than innovative approaches for making a political point clearly, concisely and compelling. Please respond - with source, if possible - to l...@newsreel.orgmailto:l...@newsreel.org. Thanks for your suggestions. Larry Daressa Larry Daressa, Co-Director California Newsreel 44 Gough Street, Suite 303 San Francisco CA 94103 415-284-7800 x 302 l...@newsreel.orgmailto:l...@newsreel.org www.newsreel.orghttp://www.newsreel.org VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors.
Re: [Videolib] documentary films on radical social movements
The African American Freedom Movement has in many respects provided a paradigm for other social justice movements in this country from Abolition down to the present. Newsreel has over fifty documentaries which offer definitive social histories of various phases of that movement, including recent releases like Anne Braden: Southern Patriot and The New Black, as well as classics like The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow, At the River I Stand, Tongues Untied and Scarred Justice. Most of these titles are now available for site licensing and video-on-demand. Our entire African American Perspectives collection is described at www.newsreel.org. Thanks. Larry Daressa, Co-Director California Newsreel 44 Gough Street, Suite 303 San Francisco CA 94103 415-284-7800 x 302 l...@newsreel.org www.newsreel.org -Original Message- From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu [mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of videolib-requ...@lists.berkeley.edu Sent: Friday, January 24, 2014 11:49 AM To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Subject: videolib Digest, Vol 74, Issue 27 Send videolib mailing list submissions to videolib@lists.berkeley.edu To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://calmail.berkeley.edu/manage/list/listinfo/videolib@lists.berkeley.edu or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to videolib-requ...@lists.berkeley.edu You can reach the person managing the list at videolib-ow...@lists.berkeley.edu When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of videolib digest... Today's Topics: 1. Re: documentary films on radical social movements (Joanne Hershfield) 2. Re: documentary films on radical social movements (fellin...@aol.com) 3. Re: documentary films on radical social movements (Sarah E. McCleskey) -- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 14:38:51 -0500 From: Joanne Hershfield joannehershfi...@bellsouth.net Subject: Re: [Videolib] documentary films on radical social movements To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Message-ID: 006101cf193b$ead164f0$c0742ed0$@bellsouth.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Seeing Red by Jim Klein and Julia Reichert about American Communists. Distributed through New Day Films. Joanne Hershfield New Day Films Liaison -- next part -- An HTML attachment scrubbed and removed. HTML attachments are only available in MIME digests. -- Message: 2 Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 14:43:38 -0500 (EST) From: fellin...@aol.com Subject: Re: [Videolib] documentary films on radical social movements To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Message-ID: 8d0e753b5c859ee-16bc-9...@webmail-m206.sysops.aol.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii also don't forget World Cat, you have to spend time with it, but you will get great results. Lisa Flanzraich -Original Message- From: Jim Davis j...@docuseek2.com To: videolib videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Sent: Fri, Jan 24, 2014 2:38 pm Subject: Re: [Videolib] documentary films on radical social movements There are a number of titles on Docuseek2. Assuming you are interested in just U.S. movements, these titles are relevant: BALLOT MEASURE 9 - battle over gay rights measure in Oregon (2008, Collective Eye) BETTER THIS WORLD - two youth arrested on terrorism charges because of activities at 2008 Republic Convention (2011, Bullfrog Films) THE CHICAGO MATERNITY CENTER STORY - grassroots effort to keep a maternity center open -- this is a classic of documentary filmmaking (1976, Kartemquin Films) CLARA LEMLICH - story of young labor organizer organizing the NYC early 20th c. garment industry (2005, Icarus Films) A FIERCE GREEN FIRE - definitive history of the environmental movement (2012, Bullfrog) HOMELAND - profiles four battles by Native America activists to protect land, sovereignty and culture (2005, Bullfrog) HOPI LAND - Hopi fight to protect land from strip mining (2001, Bullfrog) HUM 255 - another classic from Kartemquin, about 1960s student strike at U of Chicago (1970) IF A TREE FALLS - Academy Award-nominated story of the radicalization of an environmental activist (2011, Bullfrog) LOOK US IN THE EYE: THE OLD WOMEN'S PROJECT - about the founders Old Women's Project, an activist organization that challenges ageism (2007, Terra Nova) PEACOCK'S WAR - profile of legendary environmental activist, Doug Peacock (1989, Bullfrog) PUBLIC ENEMY - four Black Panther activists reflect on the impact of their radical civil rights work (2003, Icarus) THE SEATTLE SYNDROME - Were the WTO protesters right in their effort to protect workers and the environment from exploitation? (2000, Bullfrog) THE STRANGEST DREAM - history of the PUGWASH conference (nuclear proliferation) (2009 Bullfrog) 30 FRAMES A SECOND: THE WTO IN SEATTLE - Also about the WTO
Re: [Videolib] Tiered Pricing, FTE, etc
Distributors, including California Newsreel, have used tiered pricing for decades, offering different price points for 1) colleges and universities, 2) high schools, public libraries and community groups and 3) individual (home video) purchasers. Newsreel has not yet applied the tiered, e-journal model to university pricing in recognition of recent tight AV budgets but we support it as a way of bringing actual use and expense into a more equitable alignment, both for media producers and consumers. 1. In print publishing there has always been a rough correlation between hard copy sales and users; much less so with DVDs; none at all with digital files. The Carnegie Classifications, of course, provide only a rough approximation of potential use - but that is, at least, an advance on one size fits all pricing. Limited term subscriptions offer media librarians the chance to measure actual use and decide if they want to re-subscribe. (But also more work.) 2. One point, often overlooked, is that digital delivery has altered how fulfillment costs are paid. With DVDs there was a flat, minimal, one-time shipping charge paid by the purchaser. With digital, the distributor assumes an open-ended, bandwidth (usage) fee for every time a title is streamed. This results in an unsustainable economy where the more a title is used the less its seller nets, theoretically losing money on its most popular titles. Tiered pricing begins to address this problem. 3. The technology exists for a pay-per-view model - paid either by the institution or individual student - though, to my knowledge, no one has adopted it. It would enable use-based purchase models, such as deg experimented with at ASU, or a purely rental model. Prices per rental could be graduated downward at set points: the more times a title is streamed, the less the cost per stream. Just-in case, research titles would cost more per use while just in time, curricular ones less. Distributors could submit consolidated billings on a periodic basis which could be paid automatically through EFT like a telephone bill; no paper. Metrics would allow librarians to track usage in real time and pre-approve statements. Costs would not be open-ended since librarians could cap them for each title; once a cap was reached, the title would be dropped, paid for by its subsequent users or our of a library reserve. I realize I've been riding this hobby horse a long time and it is still impractical. I mention it here only as a prolepsis of where we may be heading. Larry requ...@lists.berkeley.edu Sent: Friday, March 01, 2013 11:01 AM To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Subject: videolib Digest, Vol 64, Issue 2 Send videolib mailing list submissions to videolib@lists.berkeley.edu To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://calmail.berkeley.edu/manage/list/listinfo/videolib@lists.berkeley.edu or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to videolib-requ...@lists.berkeley.edu You can reach the person managing the list at videolib-ow...@lists.berkeley.edu When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of videolib digest... Today's Topics: 1. Re: Tiered pricing, FTE, and all that (Jessica Rosner) 2. Copyright Alert System (CAS) (Laura Jenemann) 3. Re: Copyright Alert System (CAS) (Dennis Doros) 4. Re: Copyright Alert System (CAS) (Jessica Rosner) -- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2013 10:46:09 -0500 From: Jessica Rosner maddux2...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Videolib] Tiered pricing, FTE, and all that To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Message-ID: cacre6m-zmgc5auvjtdzntunx-xocj0-9tf2nl8z0wfnjukr...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Athena I think that is EXACTLY what distributors are trying to do, though this is limited to distributors of of mostly non fiction, independent , classic and some foreign films obviously not going to happen with studios. I think most distributors ( everyone from Icarus to Zeitgeist) are eager to include streaming rights when they have them ( there are exceptions and limitations depending on the title) are eager and happy to do this. There has been a growing problem with schools streaming entire films without permission or license but again distributors ( and filmmakers who sometimes need a push on this) are absolutely moving to this model. On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 10:24 AM, Athena Hoeppner ath...@ucf.edu wrote: So long as libraries get no additional rights for paying more for the videos, I expect they will most often opt for the least expensive options for acquiring videos. If distributors sold rights to stream videos for online course and other uses that would benefit libraries and education, then the higher price would be justifiable. ** ** Athena ** ** Athena
[Videolib] FW: videolib Digest, Vol 59, Issue 56
Ms. Matwichuk: You might find the following titles from California Newsreel's African American Classics collection helpful in addressing intercultural communication. BLUE EYED The definitive account of Jane Elliot's celebrated blue eyed, brown eyed racial sensitivity training workshops which place participants in the role of discriminator or discriminated against solely on the basis of eye color. http://newsreel.org/video/BLUE-EYED WHAT'S RACE GOT TO DO WITH IT? This film records a college class exploring interracial dialogue over a term and its sometimes unexpected results. http://newsreel.org/video/WHATS-RACE-GOT-TO-DO-WITH-IT BLACKING UP: HIP HOP'S REMIX OF RACE AND IDENTITY Does the involvement of white youth in hip hop represent admiration, cultural appropriation, slumming or a marker of teenage rebelliousness? http://newsreel.org/video/BLACKING-UP BLACKS AND JEWS This film ask how did these long-time allies in the struggle against discrimination drift so far apart and what can mend the rift. http://newsreel.org/video/BLACKS-AND-JEWS HERSKOVITS: AT THE HEART OF BLACKNESS This portrait on the life and work of groundbreaking Africanist anthropologist Melville Herskovits, raises question about what it means for Western scholars to study cultures other than their own. http://newsreel.org/video/HERSKOVITS-HEART-BLACKNESS SHATTERING THE SILENCES A diverse group of college professors of color discuss the special challenges of working at predominantly white universities and the extra demands placed on minority faculty members. http://newsreel.org/video/SHATTERING-THE-SILENCES Thank you. Lawrence Daressa California Newsreel 44 Gough Street, Suite 303 San Francisco CA 94103 Tel: 415-284-7800, ext. 302 Fax: 415-284-7801 l...@newsreel.org www.newsreel.org http://www.facebook.com/pages/San-Francisco-CA/California-Newsreel/10250 6363213?ref=ts 1968-2012 Media for Social Change for 44 Years Visit our website at: www.newsreel.org Sign up for our e-newsletter at: www.newsreel.org/signup VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors.
Re: [Videolib] LIFETIME STREAMING RIGHTS
Dear Bob,
Newsreel's position on this has always been that a producer (the
copyright holder) grants us the right to makes copies of his or her work
or to grant others that right only during the term of our contract
(distribution agreement.) We will continue to grant the right to copy
(migrate) files licensed by us at no charge for as long as we have that
right (i.e. during the life of our contract with the producer.) Not
all distributors may choose to do so. Once Newsreel's contract expires,,
the purchaser of a file or a local streaming license would need to ask
the copyright holder's permission to make additional files.
As with DVDs, the purchaser of a file or local streaming license from
Newsreel has the right to play or stream that file in perpetuity.
Apple must have obtained digital rights in perpetuity though they
have never asked for them from Newsreel nor would or could we grant
them. I hope this clarifies rather than complicates this issue.
Larry
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I hate to bring up a copyright issue again but...
There was recently a discussion if it is acceptable for a distributor to
grant Lifetime streaming rights. There was a faction that argued it is
acceptable as long as you limit the rights to a single digital format
and do not allow the buyer to transcode the file to a new format. They
could use the original file as long as it plays on their streaming
service just like they could use a DVD as long as it works. The analogy
was made to a download in the consumer market not having a time
restriction.
I was recently discussing this with an institution that wants to stream
in perpetuity in any format. I said Apple does not permit that and she
asked if that was through a technical limitation/DRM or the Terms and
Conditions agreement. I had to admit I did not know. So I reviewed the
terms (http://www.apple.com/legal/itunes/us/terms.html#SERVICE) and can
see no restriction about copying files to a new format. They only limit
playback to 5 iTunes approved devices and do not allow iTunes video to
be burned, which I think means to disc. Then I transcoded a m4a file to
an ACC file and played it back no problem. So it looks like Apple is
selling the right to play back in any digital format in perpetuity.
Am I missing something?
Bob
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;-{)} That's me...Mr. Drip
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Exactly - Gary is going in to drip irrigation!
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Dear Gary
I just arrived at your Video lib this week, and you won't be around.
Thanks for all your help
My advice as one pensioner to another, don't sit around doing nothing
find
something interesting something differant, I myself was an expert on
drip
irrigation joined my son to make and distribute films.
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Re: [Videolib] GOOD NIGHT AND GOOD LUCK
Dear Gary, On behalf of everyone at Newsreel, I want to congratulate you on your upcoming retirement. I can think of no one who has done more for the educational media community over the years than you. Videolib has become as important a part of our lives as our morning coffee - and sometimes as astringent. What will wake us up now! The loss of one of our most loyal and discerning clients is only compensated by the thought of how rewarding your retirement years will prove. In particular, for the reason you cite, I can't help but suspect you are leaving the field at an opportune moment; après vous le deluge! Newsreel is especially delighted to learn that you'll be staying in the Bay Area where we can join you in café society ourselves. Indeed, I can think of several areas where Newsreel could make good use of your encyclopedic knowledge of film history and use - if you can take time off from your leisurely jaunts around the world. We too will follow in your footsteps into the sunset (or is it dawn?) shortly. Sincere Good Wishes, Larry and the Crew at Newsreel. . -Original Message- From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu [mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of videolib-requ...@lists.berkeley.edu Sent: Monday, April 02, 2012 3:38 PM To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Subject: videolib Digest, Vol 53, Issue 12 Send videolib mailing list submissions to videolib@lists.berkeley.edu To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://calmail.berkeley.edu/manage/list/listinfo/videolib@lists.berkeley.edu or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to videolib-requ...@lists.berkeley.edu You can reach the person managing the list at videolib-ow...@lists.berkeley.edu When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of videolib digest... Today's Topics: 1. Good Night and Good Luck (Nellhaus, Tobin) 2. Re: posting PPR info (Gail Fedak) 3. Rights issue (Susan Weber) -- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2012 20:03:39 + From: Nellhaus, Tobin tobin.nellh...@yale.edu Subject: [Videolib] Good Night and Good Luck To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Message-ID: dae5c10160795249ad2648484ba60c19a70...@x10-mbx2.yu.yale.edu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Gary, Thanks for all you've given us on this list -- your knowledge, insights, and sometimes much-needed doses of humor or forcefulness. Thanks also for our occasional separate exchanges. I'll join the others in missing you. Enjoy retirement! Best wishes, Tobin Nellhaus Librarian for Performing Arts, Media and Philosophy Coordinator for Humanities Collection Development 226 Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University 130 Wall Street, P.O. Box 208240 New Haven, CT 06520-8240 Tel: 203/432-8212 Fax: 203/432-8527 tobin.nellh...@yale.edu -- Message: 2 Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2012 16:31:41 -0500 From: Gail Fedak gfe...@mtsu.edu Subject: Re: [Videolib] posting PPR info To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Message-ID: 4f7a1abd.50...@mtsu.edu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Nahum, Unfortunately, there are no simple answers to your questions. These are a few common ways for academic library patrons to access streamed material: 1. The streamed title can be hosted by our library: access only by faculty, students, and staff members who have a valid campus email address and unique university password or guests who use a guest password that is valid only inside the library building. 2. The streamed title can be hosted by a university's streaming server that is accessible only through a course management system. This arrangement means that a faculty member and the students in his/her class(es) who are assigned to view the title are given access to it through a password to information for a specific class. The downside to this arrangement is that students and faculty members who may want/need to use such a title have to rely on word of mouth to know that it is available. This arrangement can also be very cumbersome for university personnel to manage. 3. The streamed title can be hosted by the distributor with access as described in either situation1 or 2 above. 4. The streamed title can hosted by the distributor with individual students paying for their own license to access the title. This seems to be a very cumbersome arrangement for the distributor since the company has to keep up with individual students' payments, access rights and problems, etc. Any of these arrangements can feature various permutations on length of use: 1. Term limits: by the week(s), month(s), semester(s), or year(s) 2. In perpetuity; And number of users: 1. Individual students; 2. Specific class(es); 3. Number of potential users (based on the total enrollment or full-time
Re: [Videolib] Ethnic Notions-esque film?
Dear Susan, Dear Susan, Like you, Newsreel has felt the need to update Ethnic Notions almost since its release in 1987. To that end,, we collaborated with Marlon Riggs to produce both Color Adjustment which brought the story up to 1990 and Black Is...Black Ain't, a more introspective examination of myths of black identity, released in 1994, the year of his death. The first part of Race - The Power of an Illusion, 2004, was designed as a historic overview of the social construction of race. What's Race Got to Do with It? 2006, looked at racial attitudes on a then-contemporary college campus. As you rightly observe, most of the releases over the past two decades have addressed more specific examples of racial stereotyping. For example, Newsreel has just acquired White Scripts and Black Supermen: Black Masculinities in Comic Books. Future African American Production The 314 respondents to our survey of high-volume, institutional users of African American documentary conducted last year, expressed a clear desire for an update along the lines of Ethnic Notions; more than half, in fact, said they would definitely use a film on the Myth of the Post-Racial Society in their classes or organizations. This was second only to The Criminalization of Black Youth in topics respondents labeled as urgently needed. We have sent these and other findings from our 30 question needs assessment to the major backers of African American documentary, ITVS, PBS, the Ford Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation and HBO, but none have acknowledged receipt. It is our suspicion that they may have resented statistics on the media desires of their constituents as an incursion on their legerdemain to decide what films get made. Therefore Newsreel has decided to try to produce these films ourselves or to spur their production by others. Thanks for your continued use of what has probably been the most widely used title in our 43 year history. Best Wishes, Larry, for California Newsreel -Original Message- From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu [mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of videolib-requ...@lists.berkeley.edu Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2011 7:59 PM To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Subject: videolib Digest, Vol 46, Issue 11 Send videolib mailing list submissions to videolib@lists.berkeley.edu To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://calmail.berkeley.edu/manage/list/listinfo/videolib@lists.berkele y.edu or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to videolib-requ...@lists.berkeley.edu You can reach the person managing the list at videolib-ow...@lists.berkeley.edu When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of videolib digest... Today's Topics: 1. Re: Ethnic Notions-esque film? (Lisa Abbott) 2. Re: Ethnic Notions-esque film? (Dina Robinson) 3. Re: Ethnic Notions-esque film? (Randal Baier) -- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2011 13:22:57 -0700 From: Lisa Abbott l...@world-trust.org Subject: Re: [Videolib] Ethnic Notions-esque film? To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Message-ID: 3e170fd1-5689-48d1-bcee-6b62c0ecf...@world-trust.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Susan, You might consider our film Mirrors of Privilege for this purpose. White interviewees share their stories of learned and internalized stereotypes of people of color. Contains some historical context as well. http://world-trust.org/mirrors-of-privilege-making-whiteness-visible/ Lisa Lisa Abbott Associate Director World Trust Educational Services Social Impact through Film Dialogue 510-333-9325 skype: lmabbott www.world-trust.org Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2011 19:43:43 + From: Susan Albrecht albre...@wabash.edu Subject: [Videolib] Ethnic Notions-esque film? To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Message-ID: eb1e4106a574f649aeed38d97d0273bc66b25...@ex2010mailstore.wabash.main Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Like many of you, our copy of Ethnic Notions has gotten a lot of use over the years. In fact, I've just upgraded to DVD from VHS since it's still getting used frequently. But here's a question from a prof who uses it often: since Ethnic Notions is a 1987 production, while it's great at both providing examples of stereotyping of African-Americans and a historical overview of those stereotypes, it does... well... stop in 1987. Have others of you found something comparable that is more current? We have MEF's Dreamworlds 3, MEF's Stuart Hall and Tim Wise offerings, California Newsreel's Black Is... Black Ain't, and scores of other titles which deal with race, but they often seem to focus on one particular aspect of culture (music, sport, etc.) or lack the historic overview by focusing on one time period. We'd love to know if there's something quite similar to Ethnic
Re: [Videolib] How do you know when you've become an artist?
Dear Matt, As a non-profit organization, Newsreel feels our first commitment is get our films seen by as many people as possible, so we would prefer you to buy ten films at $30 dollars, than one at $300. But, at the same time, we think it's important to pay the producers of a film a royalty which reflects its use and value in education; in that way they can make more films, so you'll have more than Twilight to buy. So, your post raises a few idle questions in my mind. 1. I trust Twilight is not widely used in the curriculum of the University of Virginia. Students traditionally have not read or seen what they wanted but what they were assigned. This may have changed and, if so, you should have no trouble finding appropriate instruction media for $19.95 a DVD. But it would seem unnecessary for the University to buy that title since it's been demonstrated those students will pay $10 to see it anyhow at commercial theatres or pay $19.95 for a DVD or $2.00 for an i-Tunes. 2. Filmmakers always ask us if students can afford to pay those amounts (to say nothing of $50 or $100 for a rock concert), why they, their parents or the taxpayers will only pay pennies for them to see a serious educational documentary. If over the life of a DVD or digital license 300 people saw a film at the University of Virginia, the effective price at $30 would be $.10. I suspect if a title were used at all widely in the curriculum that would be possible. Similarly, if five students use a $150 textbook (resold four times) the effective price is $30 or 300 time more. Aren't we really talking about an issue of values rather than economics? Entertainment vs. education; print vs. moving images? 3, If a title is bought for reference use, like a scholarly monograph, (in Gary's distinction, if it's in the collection just in case someone needs to consult it), I agree $30 would be a reasonable price. In that case, would you be willing to limits its use to 30 people, $1 per screening, less than an article from J-Stor? I find it hard to believe that in the digital age its use couldn't be metered. It seems fair to pay a low royalty to the producer of a film which is rarely used but unfair to pay the same royalty to a producer whose film is seen by hundreds of students or to ask that producer to subsidize your reference collection. 4. Broadly speaking you're asking distributors to give you a 90% discount on our products. What if we were to say, we would be delighted to do that the minute Elsevier or Sage or the University of Virginia Press matched our offer? Or when your telephone, internet or electricity provider does the same? Have you thought of going to them and saying you had a budget crunch so could they please give you a 90% cut in your telephone bill? Could you also promise them that if they did you would make ten times as many telephone calls? Perhaps in this case, we are really talking about companies with economic power vs. companies which can be pushed around? Newsreel admits that it can be pushed around and independent filmmakers can be pushed around as well. That's our crusts and margarine.. And if there's one thing the past few years have demonstrated, it's who wins in a contest between economics and ethics. Best Wishes Larry Lawrence Daressa California Newsreel 500 Third Street, #505 San Francisco, CA 94107 phone: 415.284.7800 x302 fax: 415.284.7801 l...@newsreel.org www.newsreel.org -Original Message- From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu [mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of videolib-requ...@lists.berkeley.edu Sent: Friday, July 01, 2011 9:39 AM To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Subject: videolib Digest, Vol 44, Issue 5 Send videolib mailing list submissions to videolib@lists.berkeley.edu To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://calmail.berkeley.edu/manage/list/listinfo/videolib@lists.berkele y.edu or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to videolib-requ...@lists.berkeley.edu You can reach the person managing the list at videolib-ow...@lists.berkeley.edu When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of videolib digest... Today's Topics: 1. Re: How do you know when you've become an artist?] Fair Pricing for Independent Documentaries (Elizabeth Stanley) 2. Re: How do you know when you?ve become an artist?] (Ball, James (jmb4aw)) -- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2011 12:28:43 -0400 From: Elizabeth Stanley elizab...@bullfrogfilms.com Subject: Re: [Videolib] How do you know when you've become an artist?] Fair Pricing for Independent Documentaries To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Message-ID: 0d60cf5d39dfde49ab3837411a72fbb203a532e...@bfsbs08.bf.local Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hello, Matt, You've got my attention
Re: [Videolib] What gets streamed...what gets used.
Dear Gary, Thanks for your eye-opening post. I'd love to see your list but didn't get the attachment. The issue you raise is one that faces distributors as well. The primary reason titles are not available digitally is embedded copyrighted material which has not been cleared for digital delivery.. Depending on the amount and nature of this footage, the costs can run up to $50,000 for a standard historical documentary. That expense would be almost equaled by the highly specialized labor necessary to locate and negotiate rights digital deals. In the case of many older titles, the necessary video logs and music cue sheets are simply not available. There is no way that an older film could recoup these additional costs in the present unstable (and un-lucrative) digital market. The expedient many distributors (including some content aggregators) are using is to release a film digitally with the proviso that they may take it down (implicitly, when an infringement is noticed.) So, the purchaser of a subscription is really only getting the right to stream the content until some copyright holder gets wind of it. Of course, in 95% of the cases no one will, so the risk may not be appreciable especially spread over 5000 titles. (By the way, I believe FMG requires that the copyright holder of a film warrant that he or she has cleared the digital rights.) Newsreel itself is in denial on this issue. The upper limit for damages is $115,000 per infringement but most cases are settled simply for the cost of the clearance. In our film, Strange Fruit, however, the cost of clearing the title song and signature performance would be $35,000. I hope this sheds some more light on this troubling situation. Larry. Lawrence Daressa California Newsreel 500 Third Street, #505 San Francisco, CA 94107 phone: 415.284.7800 x302 fax: 415.284.7801 l...@newsreel.org www.newsreel.org -Original Message- From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu [mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of videolib-requ...@lists.berkeley.edu Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 9:51 AM To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Subject: videolib Digest, Vol 39, Issue 90 Send videolib mailing list submissions to videolib@lists.berkeley.edu To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://calmail.berkeley.edu/manage/list/listinfo/videolib@lists.berkele y.edu or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to videolib-requ...@lists.berkeley.edu You can reach the person managing the list at videolib-ow...@lists.berkeley.edu When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of videolib digest... Today's Topics: 1. Repost: Quick Question re: Cataloging Media Sets (Meghann Matwichuk) 2. What gets streamed...what gets used (ghand...@library.berkeley.edu) -- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 12:03:53 -0500 From: Meghann Matwichuk mtw...@udel.edu Subject: [Videolib] Repost: Quick Question re: Cataloging Media Sets To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Message-ID: 4d653df9.8040...@udel.edu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Some of you may remember that I posted the following query to the listserv at the beginning of the year. I did get a number of great responses (thank you!), but the question got buried a bit in a list mishap where duplicate messages spawned between videolib and videonews. I thought I'd toss it out one more time to see if those of you who did not respond in January might be able to give their $.02 this time around. Thanks, Meghann Original Message Subject:Quick Question re: Cataloging Media Sets Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2011 16:36:16 -0500 From: Meghann Matwichuk mtw...@udel.edu To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu I am curious to know what your general approach is to cataloging movies which are packaged in sets, such as the Criterion Eclipse Series; for example, The First Films of Samuel Fuller, which contains three individual films. Would you catalog this as: A) One record with three parts, e.g. The First Films of Samuel Fuller (set, parts 1-3) or B) Three individual records, e.g. The Steel Helmet, The Baron of Arizona, and I Shot Jesse James? If you have an extra second and could let me know what kind of library you represent (academic / public / etc.), I'd appreciate it. Cheers, * Meghann Matwichuk, M.S. Associate Librarian Instructional Media Collection Department Morris Library, University of Delaware 181 S. College Ave. Newark, DE 19717 (302) 831-1475 http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/instructionalmedia/ -- next part -- An HTML attachment scrubbed and removed. HTML attachments are only available in MIME digests. -- Message: 2 Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 09:51:16 -0800 From: ghand...@library.berkeley.edu Subject
Re: [Videolib] Streaming within a password protected course management system
This opinion letter from the Library Copyright Alliance is a legal brief in support of a practice which it acknowledges may result in litigation. In this respect, it is incomplete. It does not say how much lawyers will charge to pursue such litigation or what penalties might result if its opinion is not upheld. Are the LCA, ARL of CSM prepared to defend and hold harmless those who trust their adventurous interpretations?. This brief does, however, manage to raise in passing a key issue. Educational film distributors, by definition, distribute films whose explicit purpose is education. Indeed, today, their licensing agreements usually stipulate that their titles are intended primarily for use in mediated instruction. It is hard - at least for an educational distributor - to understand how the use of an entire educational film by an educational institution to educate its students would constitute a transformative use and hence a fair use. Also, it is difficult for us to see how such a fair use would not result in financial injury to an educational distributor since the primary market for educational films in presumably educators. There is a further point. If an educational institution has not claimed a fair use exemption in the past for its use of educational films in face-to-face instruction but purchased them as instructional materials like a book or blackboard, how can it now claim that its use is a fair use simply because it is used in a virtual classroom, eg. distance learning or course management software Bookending it with some discussion questions or assigned readings hardly counters this argument since educational films have always been used within a context of accompanying print materials. Copyright law is skeptical of such opportunistic conversion experiences. Larry Lawrence Daressa California Newsreel 500 Third Street, #505 San Francisco, CA 94107 phone: 415.284.7800 x302 fax: 415.284.7801 l...@newsreel.org www.newsreel.org -Original Message- From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu [mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of videolib-requ...@lists.berkeley.edu Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2010 12:26 PM To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Subject: videolib Digest, Vol 37, Issue 3 Send videolib mailing list submissions to videolib@lists.berkeley.edu To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://calmail.berkeley.edu/manage/list/listinfo/video...@lists.berkele y.edu or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to videolib-requ...@lists.berkeley.edu You can reach the person managing the list at videolib-ow...@lists.berkeley.edu When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of videolib digest... Today's Topics: 1. Re: Streaming within a password protected course management system (ghand...@library.berkeley.edu) 2. Public Libraries and Streaming Video (Vicki Nesting) 3. Re: Streaming within a password protected course management system (Hannah Lee) -- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2010 10:43:35 -0800 From: ghand...@library.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: [Videolib] Streaming within a password protected course management system To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Message-ID: 5a9325b852e4ee357a8483e130e0b90d.squir...@calmail.berkeley.edu Content-Type: text/plain;charset=utf-8 uh...well OK...This is part of ARL's response to the UCLA case. I think the jury is still definitely out, despite what ARL thinks. The thing that's frustrating about this pronouncement is the fact that it was shepherded thru without any participation whatsoever from media librarians--in other words, it was developed in a vacuum and may not reflect working or legal realities. gary handman Hello--the Library Copyright Alliance (which is affiliated with ALA, ACRL, and ARL) has issued a brief that goes over the issue of streaming an entire film in a remote non-classroom location. Here's the link to the eight page brief: http://www.librarycopyrightalliance.org/bm~doc/ibstreamingfilms_021810.p dfhttp://www.librarycopyrightalliance.org/bm%7Edoc/ibstreamingfilms_021 810.pdf In short, they state that the three provisions of the Copyright Act ... could permit streaming of this sort: Sections 107, 110(2), and 110(1). While all three provisions may apply, Section 107 fair use is perhaps the strongest justification. Hannah On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 3:51 PM, Shoaf,Judith P jsh...@ufl.edu wrote: If the documentaries are designed to accompany the textbook, the publishers may be willing to give permission for the streaming version as an ancillary. If the documentaries are designed to accompany a textbook not used in the course, they can?t be used, I believe. If they are independent documentaries, they should be shown in class. Probably for distance ed they could be streamed
Re: [Videolib] On-Line Streaming Sources
Thanks Deg for the very useful information. Rather than my usual rant-to-the-list, this post appeals to the wisdom-of-the-list. Does anyone know of a digital delivery service for videos of conference sessions? We have recently acquired 40 DVDs from the SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference in May and would like to make them available both as individual sessions and the whole conference both on DVD and digitally for a nominal fee. Thanks. Larry Lawrence Daressa California Newsreel 500 Third Street, #505 San Francisco, CA 94107 phone: 415.284.7800 x302 fax: 415.284.7801 l...@newsreel.org www.newsreel.org -Original Message- From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu [mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of videolib-requ...@lists.berkeley.edu Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2010 12:34 PM To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Subject: videolib Digest, Vol 33, Issue 56 Send videolib mailing list submissions to videolib@lists.berkeley.edu To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://calmail.berkeley.edu/manage/list/listinfo/video...@lists.berkele y.edu or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to videolib-requ...@lists.berkeley.edu You can reach the person managing the list at videolib-ow...@lists.berkeley.edu When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of videolib digest... Today's Topics: 1. Re: [Online streaming sources (Deg Farrelly) 2. Re: Robert Rauschenberg- Man At Work (Delin, Peter) 3. Re: Robert Rauschenberg- Man At Work [1998] (Randal Baier) 4. Department of Justice (ANPRM) -Movie captioning video description for movies shown in movie theaters (Catherine Michael) 5. link correction: Department of Justice (ANPRM) -Movie captioning (Catherine Michael) 6. Looking for: Classroom Interviews in Action (Vince Jenkins) -- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 13:48:49 -0700 From: Deg Farrelly deg.farre...@asu.edu Subject: Re: [Videolib] [Online streaming sources To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Message-ID: c8919541.4d3eb%ic...@exchange.asu.edu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Similarly, use data from Arizona State University. (I am only able to provide simple usage data from the entry tab, not to the specific providers. I'm looking into more detailed reporting) From my Streaming Video LibGuide which went live in January. Aggregated data January 2010 to date: Films On Demand - 749 Internet sites - 716 Other Licensed Collections - 544 Pay-Per-View Sources - 286 Linking Videos in Blackboard - 489 Note: MOST films on demand titles have catalog records, so many users access those titles from links in the online catalog. Films on Demand is a subscription shared across the 3 AZ universities (ASU, UofA, NAU). IP range use data is not available, but aggregated data for the first year of operation: * 4830 titles (about 75% of the collection) were used * 212,517 total use * Most viewed title: 13,340 views * More than half the titles viewed (2601) received 6 or more uses. * For information on the resources linked under each of these tabs, please look at my LibGuide here: http://libguides.asu.edu/StreamingVideo *** Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 13:47:56 -0400 From: Jo Ann Reynolds jo_ann.reyno...@uconn.edu Subject: Re: [Videolib] Online streaming sources I have the Internet Archives and some others linked to a Media Resources LibGuide. Usage stats indicate 90 hits to the Free Media tab since January and 137 to Documentaries and Educational Media, which is a page devoted to links to free resources. Individual link stats: 8 hits to free documentaries online, 4 to PBS Frontline, 14 to PBS, 3 to TED Talks, 4 to Web of Stories, 2 to Babelgum, 1 to Discovery channel, just to give you an idea. Not a lot of hits but fills part of the need we have here. Libguide: http://classguides.lib.uconn.edu/mediaresources Jo Ann Reynolds snip Hi All, I'm wondering if anyone is using any of the online free streaming sources (such as Internet Archives, EZ Takes, Crackle) as an alternative to physical DVDs for reserves, and if so what are the benefits and drawbacks? Cheers, Matt -- Message: 2 Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 14:10:37 +0200 From: de...@zlb.de (Delin, Peter) Subject: Re: [Videolib] Robert Rauschenberg- Man At Work To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Message-ID: 4c6d1f3d.30...@zlb.de Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Dear Debra, there is a German version available (Region 0, Englisch language, but PAL !) http://www.arthaus-musik.com/templates/tyCatalogueDetail.php?id=524topi c=homepage available also from amazon.de http://www.amazon.de/Robert-Rauschenberg-Man-Work-DVD/dp/393987308X Best Peter Email: de...@zlb.de http://www.zlb.de/wissensgebiete/kunst_buehne_medien/videos http
Re: [Videolib] A Producer's Guide to Digital Rights Management
Newsreel has just posted a revised and expanded version of its A Producer's Guide to Digital Rights Management. It provides an admittedly opinionated view of the emerging digital environment. The footnotes, as readers of videolib will not be surprised, manage to be simultaneously scathing (names are named) and abstruse, and are to my mind the most amusing part of the document. The guide itself, however, may prove a marginally useful reference tool for production students and even some novice video librarians. It can be found at http://www.newsreel.org/articles/sffs.htm Sorry for the plug. Larry Lawrence Daressa California Newsreel 500 Third Street, #505 San Francisco, CA 94107 phone: 415.284.7800 x302 fax: 415.284.7801 l...@newsreel.org www.newsreel.org -Original Message- From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu [mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of videolib-requ...@lists.berkeley.edu Sent: Friday, July 30, 2010 12:02 PM To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Subject: videolib Digest, Vol 32, Issue 78 Send videolib mailing list submissions to videolib@lists.berkeley.edu To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://calmail.berkeley.edu/manage/list/listinfo/video...@lists.berkele y.edu or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to videolib-requ...@lists.berkeley.edu You can reach the person managing the list at videolib-ow...@lists.berkeley.edu When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of videolib digest... Today's Topics: 1. Re: videolib Digest, Vol 32, Issue 77 (Maria Soares) 2. VintageFilmBuff (Brigid Duffy) 3. Re: Michael Moore wants to bring back downtown movie theaters (Alex O. Williams) -- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:48:15 -0400 From: Maria Soares maria.soa...@humber.ca Subject: Re: [Videolib] videolib Digest, Vol 32, Issue 77 To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Message-ID: fc.007ea92c086134563b9aca0066e4f290.8613...@humber.ca Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 I will be on vacation as of July 26 and returning August 16. Interlibrary loan services will not be available during this time. If you need immediate assistance, please call 416-675-6622 ext. 4421 -- next part -- An HTML attachment scrubbed and removed. HTML attachments are only available in MIME digests. -- Message: 2 Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:56:24 -0700 From: Brigid Duffy bdu...@sfsu.edu Subject: [Videolib] VintageFilmBuff To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Message-ID: 839c871d-89aa-4222-98fc-c8ddbdc5a...@sfsu.edu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Hello all, Has anyone dealt with VintageFilmBuff (http://www.vintagefilmbuff.com/)? They have a film on DVD that I can't find available even on vhs, College Humor (1933). We want it, but not if it's bootleg. Thanks either way, Brigid Duffy Academic Technology San Francisco State University San Francisco, CA 94132-4200 E-mail: bdu...@sfsu.edu -- Message: 3 Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:02:03 -0700 From: Alex O. Williams a...@typecastfilms.com Subject: Re: [Videolib] Michael Moore wants to bring back downtown movie theaters To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Message-ID: aanlktinvmlgmytnzggh8z8supoda5taziit2cy68i...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Nice?thanks Nan! Here's a neat photo of the remodeled State Theaterhttp://www.filmfestivalworld.com/fileadmin/tcff_State_Theater.jp gin Traverse City, MI. when I visited the Dakotas last summer, I watched MOON at the restored Fargo Theaterhttp://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9F1kKNUUaeY/SkCYkz-kiNI/BGk/W9 npWgB8Fto/s400/Fargo+theatre.jpg in downtown Fargo. there is hope! _ Alex O. Williams Institutional Sales AFD / Typecast Films Seattle, WA . USA ph: 206.322.0882 x.202 | fx: 206.322.4586 arabfilm.com | typecastfilms.com On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 11:42 AM, Rubin, Nan rub...@thirteen.org wrote: A story to brighten up the day, from the AP. best, Nan Rubin * * * * * http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/07/29/entertainmen t/e120344D81 .DTL ** *Moore** wants to bring back downtown movie theaters* By JOHN FLESHER and MIKE HOUSEHOLDER, Associated Press Writers Thursday, July 29, 2010 (07-29) 12:09 PDT Traverse City, Mich. (AP) -- For generations, Americans viewed filmshttp://topics.sfgate.com/topics/Filmin stately, single-screen theaters that were pillars of city business districts ? an experience that faded with the rise of suburban multiplexes and the decline of downtowns. Michael Moore http://topics.sfgate.com/topics/Michael_Moore wants to bring those theaters back. The Academy Awardhttp://topics.sfgate.com/topics/Academy_Award-winning documentary filmmaker has a plan to refurbish
Re: [Videolib] New copyright rules re: DMCA exemptions are finally announced
I hope Chris Lewis will forward these clear guidelines to his colleagues Pat Aufderheide of the Center for Social Media at American University and Peter Jazy of the American University Law School. It may help them clarify their position on whether every educational use of copyrighted material, in whole or in part, ipso facto constitutes a transformative and hence fair use. Although this ruling specifically addresses the breaking of encryption under the DMCA, I think we can infer that Librarian of Congress' definition of the exemption is intended to permit circumvention in the case of fair uses as historically understood. The Librarian's language restricts circumvention to incorporation of small portions of motion pictures into new works for the purpose of criticism or comment. This reaffirms that only small portions of a work may be used under a fair use claim, only enough quotation to permit criticism of or comment on the work quoted. Thus claims, such as UCLA's, that it may break DVD encryption to stream entire texts simply because they are being used educationally are ruled out. More importantly, the Librarian limits the purposes for which encryption may be broken to criticism and comment. This does not permit circumvention simply to explain or illustrate what the work itself explains or illustrates. This distinction is indeed academic because educational texts are explicitly intended to explain and illustrate educational points. Hence, their use to do so would, on its face, not be q transformative use but something closer to plagiarism, not quotation but substitution, in short, copying a copyrighted work to circumvent not encryption but payment. This provides narrower grounds for breaking encryption than I, as a documentary producer, would prefer. I would hope that copyrighted material could be incorporate into a remix or mash-up, not just to critique or comment on the material quoted but merely to transform it, for example, through video manipulation or superimposition. This would, I admit, require a rather expansive interpretation of comment. . . Lawrence Daressa California Newsreel 500 Third Street, #505 San Francisco, CA 94107 phone: 415.284.7800 x302 fax: 415.284.7801 l...@newsreel.org www.newsreel.org -Original Message- From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu [mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of videolib-requ...@lists.berkeley.edu Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 10:35 AM To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Subject: videolib Digest, Vol 32, Issue 58 Send videolib mailing list submissions to videolib@lists.berkeley.edu To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://calmail.berkeley.edu/manage/list/listinfo/video...@lists.berkele y.edu or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to videolib-requ...@lists.berkeley.edu You can reach the person managing the list at videolib-ow...@lists.berkeley.edu When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of videolib digest... Today's Topics: 1. Re: videolib Digest, Vol 32, Issue 57 (Maria Soares) 2. Re: New copyright rules re: DMCA exemptions are finally announced - and they are now exempt educational uses by all university professors and students (Jessica Rosner) 3. FAQ on DMCA (CROWLEY, CHRISTINE) 4. Re: FAQ on DMCA (Brewer, Michael) -- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 12:45:06 -0400 From: Maria Soares maria.soa...@humber.ca Subject: Re: [Videolib] videolib Digest, Vol 32, Issue 57 To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Message-ID: fc.007ea92c085c7ada3b9aca00db6c7b8f.85c7...@humber.ca Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 I will be on vacation as of July 26 and returning August 16. Interlibrary loan services will not be available during this time. If you need immediate assistance, please call 416-675-6622 ext. 4421 -- next part -- An HTML attachment scrubbed and removed. HTML attachments are only available in MIME digests. -- Message: 2 Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 12:46:01 -0400 From: Jessica Rosner maddux2...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Videolib] New copyright rules re: DMCA exemptions are finally announced - and they are now exempt educational uses by all university professors and students To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Message-ID: aanlkti=e6lm+dhhob+alfczotzqxkme7un40k__vk...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Very sensible. It allows you circumvent the DMCA in order to use a small portion of a work for a class etc. I especially appreciate that it really spells out this is a small portion and for a transformative purpose. Jessica On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Chris Lewis cle...@american.edu wrote: http://www.copyright.gov/1201/ -- Chris Lewis Media Librarian American University Library 202.885.3257
Re: [Videolib] videolib Digest, Vol 32, Issue 64
I think Gary is being a little disingenuous to say that today's ruling has absolutely nothing to do with fair use. One need merely read UCLA's legal brief to see that they are making a fair use claim for breaking encryption not to use clips to critique or comment but to stream entire works. What this sentence does is resolve a contradiction between fair use and the DMCA. I would claim that a professor's fair use right to use clips trumped the DMCA all along, but I'm not a legal scholar. Today's ruling only extends well-established fair use standards and protections to encrypted content and, unfortunately, only for certain classes of users (teachers, students, documentary and non-commercial filmmakers) but not non-commercial distributors or the average citizen. The real issue is not are teachers breaking encryption to use small portions of films to critique or comment on those films but are they screening and streaming large portions of films to explain and illustrate the curriculum without paying for those rights. I think we all know the answer to that. Larry Lawrence Daressa California Newsreel 500 Third Street, #505 San Francisco, CA 94107 phone: 415.284.7800 x302 fax: 415.284.7801 l...@newsreel.org www.newsreel.org -Original Message- From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu [mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of videolib-requ...@lists.berkeley.edu Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 6:25 PM To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Subject: videolib Digest, Vol 32, Issue 64 Send videolib mailing list submissions to videolib@lists.berkeley.edu To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://calmail.berkeley.edu/manage/list/listinfo/video...@lists.berkele y.edu or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to videolib-requ...@lists.berkeley.edu You can reach the person managing the list at videolib-ow...@lists.berkeley.edu When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of videolib digest... Today's Topics: 1. DMCA...what did we win? (Rudy Leon) 2. Re: DMCA...what did we win? (ghand...@library.berkeley.edu) 3. Re: DMCA...what did we win? (Rudy Leon) 4. Re: New copyright rules re: DMCA exemptions are finallyannounced (Jessica Rosner) -- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:18:06 -0500 From: Rudy Leon rudy.l...@gmail.com Subject: [Videolib] DMCA...what did we win? To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Message-ID: aanlktik880+bum-d_vfc04xirfvbrnxcd4fpxw7vb...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Someone just asked me, and I realized I did not have the answer -- does this Rule-making by the Librarian of Congress carry the weight of law? is it a binding step, or a step on the path to a binding interpretation? -- next part -- An HTML attachment scrubbed and removed. HTML attachments are only available in MIME digests. -- Message: 2 Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:24:49 -0700 From: ghand...@library.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: [Videolib] DMCA...what did we win? To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Message-ID: 080a7544d514f220e60bc196cb0b0531.squir...@calmail.berkeley.edu Content-Type: text/plain;charset=utf-8 The LOC is vested with making binding rulings re copyright. This particular ruling does not need to be ratified by Congress. Gary Someone just asked me, and I realized I did not have the answer -- does this Rule-making by the Librarian of Congress carry the weight of law? is it a binding step, or a step on the path to a binding interpretation? VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors. 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 -- Message: 3 Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:50:49 -0500 From: Rudy Leon rudy.l...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Videolib] DMCA...what did we win? To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Message-ID: aanlkti=x4x-jyxhfcgwmmm5+ybryampjraohml+rn...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Thanks Gary! On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 3:24 PM, ghand...@library.berkeley.edu wrote: The LOC is vested with making binding rulings re copyright. This particular ruling does not need to be ratified by Congress. Gary Someone just asked me, and I
Re: [Videolib] PBS vs. FMG
Dear List, California Newsreel, Women Make Movies, Icarus Films and Bullfrog Films are considering building a joint digital delivery platform. We would maintain our own discrete portals and on-line catalogs but share a shopping cart, customer registration system and digital fulfillment capacity. We have looked at FMG and Ambrose 2.0 as setting industry standards for remote delivery. Last week, there was a posting which seemed to say that PBS was adopting a different model. They would supply DVDs or digital files which could then be streamed from password protected local servers. Setting aside any questions of pricing and rights, which of these two models, local or remote delivery, would your library prefer today? Which do you think it will prefer five years from now? Thanks for helping us decide how best to accomplish the digital migration of our collections. Best Wishes Larry Daressa Lawrence Daressa California Newsreel 500 Third Street, #505 San Francisco, CA 94107 phone: 415.284.7800 x302 fax: 415.284.7801 l...@newsreel.org www.newsreel.org -Original Message- From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu [mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of videolib-requ...@lists.berkeley.edu Sent: Sunday, June 20, 2010 1:05 PM To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Subject: videolib Digest, Vol 31, Issue 40 Send videolib mailing list submissions to videolib@lists.berkeley.edu To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://calmail.berkeley.edu/manage/list/listinfo/video...@lists.berkele y.edu or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to videolib-requ...@lists.berkeley.edu You can reach the person managing the list at videolib-ow...@lists.berkeley.edu When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of videolib digest... Today's Topics: 1. Re: DVDs doughnut labels (CROWLEY, CHRISTINE) -- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2010 00:13:21 -0500 From: CROWLEY, CHRISTINE ccrowl...@alamo.edu Subject: Re: [Videolib] DVDs doughnut labels To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Message-ID: dbce06919cb10d438b9adeb7486c3d4101af1...@accdmail2.ad.root Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 We use the 3m overlays and have a printed doughnut hole label, no problems that I am aware of. Christine Crowley Dean of Learning Resources Northwest Vista College 3535 N. Ellison Dr. San Antonio, TX 78251 210.486.4572 office 210.486.4504 fax ccrowl...@alamo.edu Northwest Vista College is one of the Alamo Colleges www.alamo.edu/nvc/lrc From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu on behalf of m.lo...@mphpl.org Sent: Sat 6/19/2010 12:31 PM To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: [Videolib] DVDs doughnut labels We have been using the 'doughnuts' under the security over-lays for several years. We have had very few complaints and it has helped us to lower the rate of theft and minimize the shelf space now without bulky security covers. We have a circular property stamp on the doughnut and we by hand write the last significant digits of the bar code for our tracking encase the disc and the case become separated. Marsha Loyer Media Services Coordinator Mishawaka-Penn-Harris Public Library 209 Lincoln Way East Mishawaka, IN 46544 Phone: 574-259-5277 Fax: 574-254-5585 Email: m.lo...@mphpl.org Original Message Subject: [Videolib] DVDs doughnut labels From: Logan, Michael mlo...@co.humboldt.ca.us Date: Fri, June 18, 2010 7:01 pm To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Hi everyone, I'm wondering if anyone is using 3M security-strip overlays in conjunction with a doughnut hub label. We are currently using the overlays and hand-writing our library's ownership information around the DVD hub, as we had been concerned about excessive labels throwing off the DVDs' spin/balance. But we're trying to streamline the processing of these items, and get them out on the shelves faster. We're very interested in anyone who has used both the security overlays WITH a printable (or pre-printed) hub label--has this worked for you? Have there been problems (patron complaints about playability issues, etc.)? Any real-world information would be greatly appreciated! Thanks very much, Michael Logan Acquisitions Technical Services Humboldt County Library Eureka, CA (707) 269-1962 VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions
Re: [Videolib] Licensing versus Purchase/ Institutional versus Home Pricing
Myles, I'm sure you're right that stipulations will alienate some potential customers which we regret. But these days it seems that charging anything for digital content is taken as an affront. And it shouldn't matter to anyone who simply wants to use a film in class. As a public librarian, however, you have nothing to worry about because circulation copies are used by only one borrower at a time, you could license virtual copies similarly to Overdrive at the $49.95 price. We'd like to be able to sell directly through Overdrive, in fact, but they aren't able to differentiate between public and university libraries (you'd think the .edu versus .org suffix would be simple enough.) As to UCLA, I agree they might not respect a license even if they agreed to it. Like some other distributors, we are not selling to U.C.L.A. until the case is resolved. The state seems to have decided it's less expensive to litigate than to pay for its educational materials and I suppose they might well be right. Larry Lawrence Daressa California Newsreel 500 Third Street, #505 San Francisco, CA 94107 phone: 415.284.7800 x302 fax: 415.284.7801 l...@newsreel.org www.newsreel.org -Original Message- From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu [mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of videolib-requ...@lists.berkeley.edu Sent: Friday, May 14, 2010 3:12 PM To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Subject: videolib Digest, Vol 30, Issue 52 Send videolib mailing list submissions to videolib@lists.berkeley.edu To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://calmail.berkeley.edu/manage/list/listinfo/video...@lists.berkele y.edu or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to videolib-requ...@lists.berkeley.edu You can reach the person managing the list at videolib-ow...@lists.berkeley.edu When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of videolib digest... Today's Topics: 1. Re: Licensing versus Sales; Institutional versus Home Pricing (Jaeschke, Myles) -- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 17:04:16 -0500 From: Jaeschke, Myles mjae...@tulsalibrary.org Subject: Re: [Videolib] Licensing versus Sales; Institutional versus Home Pricing To: 'videolib@lists.berkeley.edu' videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Message-ID: 879996668085ee4ab2aab049051c420d91e2974...@tccl-email.central.local Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Christine, I was just thinking kinda the same thing but wasn't quite sure how to word it. I think most of the media librarians out there strive to honor the requests and terms of our vendors, but there has to be a simpler way than this. Lawrence with all of these stipulations you may be alienating some of the purchasers of your fine products. Many of the steaming issues are not an issue for me yet as a purchaser for a public library but I'm sure it's coming in the near future. Best, Myles Jaeschke Tulsa City County Library Media Collections From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu [mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of CROWLEY, CHRISTINE Sent: Friday, May 14, 2010 4:52 PM To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: [Videolib] Licensing versus Sales; Institutional versus Home Pricing I'm trying to imagine having the time and the staff to arrange for and monitor the usage of your materials, Lawrence. And multiply that by the number of vendors we buy from...all of whom may have similar policies with minor differences..hmmm. And then we must also invite the IT folks and faculty to these discussions as they often are ignorant (blissfully so) of the nuances of use and are probably planning to make use of the current technology to deliver this information to their students. There might be a whole new career path for Licensing Arbitrators. Not that we could afford to hire one... Just my thoughts on a rainy afternoon, Christine Crowley Dean of Learning Resources Northwest Vista College 3535 N. Ellison Dr. San Antonio, TX 78251 210.486.4572 office 210.486.4504 fax ccrowl...@alamo.edumailto:ccrowl...@alamo.edu Northwest Vista College is one of the Alamo Colleges www.alamo.edu/nvc/lrchttp://www.alamo.edu/nvc/lrc From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu on behalf of Lawrence Daressa Sent: Fri 5/14/2010 3:48 PM To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Subject: [Videolib] Licensing versus Sales; Institutional versus Home Pricing Dear All, I've been off the list for two weeks and would like to add something to the discussion of licensing versus sales and institutional versus home pricing. I apologize if I have made these points before, but they seem to have bearing on these postings. Newsreel has begun attaching a licensing agreement to all our DVD sales in response to the UCLA case and the proliferation of similarly fanciful fair use claims. All purchasing
Re: [Videolib] Licensing versus sales, institutional versus home pricing
Dear Gary, I don't see why this would create a problem if the researcher were accredited and password protected. Password protection constitutes recognition that the user is in some way affiliated with Berkeley or that they have access to a digital device located on that campus. On the other hand, if the content is available to anyone in the world without password-protection or university accreditation, it would grant Berkeley world-wide streaming rights for $195, putatively eliminating the rest of the global market. Not only would this violate distributors' contracts with their producers but producers' contracts with the copyright holders of embedded content. Even Google agrees to apply geo-blocking. This raises a related issue. If there is in fact no difference between a DVD and digital streaming, why is it that now people thousands of miles from Berkeley have access to content which they would not have in the case of a DVD or hard copy book? I understand the responsibilities of an international research institution but, as with the UCLA case, they seem to trump any consideration of copyright let alone compensation for content producers. Best Wishes Larry Lawrence Daressa California Newsreel 500 Third Street, #505 San Francisco, CA 94107 phone: 415.284.7800 x302 fax: 415.284.7801 l...@newsreel.org www.newsreel.org -Original Message- From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu [mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of videolib-requ...@lists.berkeley.edu Sent: Friday, May 14, 2010 4:38 PM To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Subject: videolib Digest, Vol 30, Issue 55 Send videolib mailing list submissions to videolib@lists.berkeley.edu To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://calmail.berkeley.edu/manage/list/listinfo/video...@lists.berkele y.edu or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to videolib-requ...@lists.berkeley.edu You can reach the person managing the list at videolib-ow...@lists.berkeley.edu When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of videolib digest... Today's Topics: 1. Re: Licensing versus Sales; Institutional versus Home Pricing (Jessica Rosner) -- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 19:37:26 -0400 From: Jessica Rosner maddux2...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Videolib] Licensing versus Sales; Institutional versus HomePricing To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Message-ID: aanlktin8gw5ixmx8pznsqygwblcpk9vfqztdrpnsz...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 I think this can easily be worked out. I think it would be more practical for a purchase agreement to just make it clear what is already the case under copyright law , the purchasers can not digitize, stream or copy any title without explicit permission. I doubt you or most librarians here would have a problem with that. Alas that does not solve that much as the pricing for streaming and the length of term is still a major problem. On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 6:49 PM, ghand...@library.berkeley.edu wrote: This is massively problematic, Larry (and all others)... All purchasing a license as opposed to a DVD does is restrict use to registered students, staff and faculty, whether individually or in class. Public research institutions (and many small public institutions) are chartered not only to support teaching, study, and research by registered students, staff and faculty, but also to national and international scholarly agendas and needs. Although the very large majority of MRC's use is by UCB/UC students, we regularly make ourselves available to valid researchers from all over the world. A license that would restrict this larger mission is simply not tenable for us. I suspect that this also holds true for other ARL colleagues on this list... Gary Handman I'm trying to imagine having the time and the staff to arrange for and monitor the usage of your materials, Lawrence. And multiply that by the number of vendors we buy from...all of whom may have similar policies with minor differences..hmmm. And then we must also invite the IT folks and faculty to these discussions as they often are ignorant (blissfully so) of the nuances of use and are probably planning to make use of the current technology to deliver this information to their students. There might be a whole new career path for Licensing Arbitrators. Not that we could afford to hire one... Just my thoughts on a rainy afternoon, Christine Crowley Dean of Learning Resources Northwest Vista College 3535 N. Ellison Dr. San Antonio, TX 78251 210.486.4572 office 210.486.4504 fax ccrowl...@alamo.edu Northwest Vista College is one of the Alamo Colleges www.alamo.edu/nvc/lrc From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu
Re: [Videolib] Fair Use Liberation Army
. Students can rent films from Amazon as easily and less expensively than buying a book. So who's ignoring the changes brought about by digital technology - distributors or video librarians? Could there be a double standard at work here, an anachronistic printist prejudice which still regards films as instructional technology on a par with an overhead projector? The 300 lb. guerrilla in this entire argument, of course, has been that video acquisition budgets have been cut at virtually every university in the last year; that's what's prompted this upsurge of interest in affordability. As Gary knows the taxpayers of California have consistently refused to pay the real costs of public higher education and higher education has reciprocated by privatizing as many of those costs as possible. This is no doubt socially detrimental bordering on the sociopathic. Nonetheless, universities have not, to the best of my knowledge, threatened boycotts of book publishers, software vendors, internet service providers, etc. unless they make their products more affordable. They haven't formed Liberation Armies to appropriate telephone cables or bookstores under the banner of Fair Use or on the grounds that it would make education more affordable. These tactics seem reserved for video distributors. My very obvious point is that librarians (and distributors) are taking a lot of assumptions for granted; we all carry the baggage of the past with us; we all have our sacred cows and oxen to be gored and exaggerate our own entitlement to the detriment of others. Gary et al are right that the old business model is broken. But they seem to want to repair it at the expense of filmmakers and distributors. The challenge is not to fix a broken model but to invent a new one which can work for both content providers and content users. Larry Daressa Lawrence Daressa California Newsreel 500 Third Street, #505 San Francisco, CA 94107 phone: 415.284.7800 x302 fax: 415.284.7801 l...@newsreel.org www.newsreel.org -Original Message- From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu [mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of videolib-requ...@lists.berkeley.edu Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2010 12:41 PM To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Subject: videolib Digest, Vol 27, Issue 11 Send videolib mailing list submissions to videolib@lists.berkeley.edu To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://calmail.berkeley.edu/manage/list/listinfo/videolib@lists.berkeley.edu or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to videolib-requ...@lists.berkeley.edu You can reach the person managing the list at videolib-ow...@lists.berkeley.edu When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of videolib digest... Today's Topics: 1. Looking for BBC DVD of Kipling's Kim (Karen Heckman) 2. Re: Fair Use Liberation Army (ghand...@library.berkeley.edu) 3. Re: Fair Use Liberation Army (Sandra Macke) -- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 04 Feb 2010 12:57:40 -0500 From: Karen Heckman heckma...@scranton.edu Subject: [Videolib] Looking for BBC DVD of Kipling's Kim To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Message-ID: 4b6b0a94.9010...@scranton.edu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Hello All, I'm getting blurry-eyed searching for this so I'm now turning to the pros. I have a professor looking for this video which he thinks was produced by the BBC in 1984 starring Peter O'Toole. I did find one on Amazon with O'Toole but its black and white which makes me think it is earlier than 1984 and there is no mention of BBC. Perhaps the prof has a couple different versions converging in his mind? Any help and/or direction on this would be greatly appreciated. TIA. Karen -- Karen V. Heckman Coordinator Media Resources Collection Weinberg Memorial Library University of Scranton Phone: 570-941-6330 FAX: 570-941-6369 -- next part -- An HTML attachment scrubbed and removed. HTML attachments are only available in MIME digests. -- Message: 2 Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 10:12:57 -0800 From: ghand...@library.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: [Videolib] Fair Use Liberation Army To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Message-ID: 6d1dd67c9fbb13b30f786437e4189b50.squir...@calmail.berkeley.edu Content-Type: text/plain;charset=utf-8 Hi all I am in complete agreement with Chris. While I realize that we are in the very early years of transition to new digital formats and deliver models, it seems to me (as I've written before) that the economic models which seem to have shaken down for licensing independently produced and distributed media are simply not realistic or sustainable in the long run. The transition from a buy-once/use many model to a serial licensing model represents a budgetary obligation
Re: [Videolib] Fair Use Liberation Army
I agree with Dennis on this. Fair use has become a thinly disguised cover for blatantly illegal copying and exhibition. As I pointed out in my post yesterday, this piracy is abetted by groups who have a clear agenda to liberate all digital moving image content from copyright protection. They stonewall when asked to give on example of where an appropriate educational use would not constitute a fair use. The assumption that moving image content should be exempted from the protection afforded books, photographs and journals reveals an implicit, anachronistic printist bias, all too familiar to readers of this list. To demonstrate how outlandish and disingenuous some fair use claims have become, I'll cite three recent examples encountered by Newsreel. 1. A professor of government (no less) contended that making a digital file of Ethnic Notions from a DVD constituted a transformative use since it was no longer a DVD. 2. A professor of sociology argued that placing our entire, four hour series Unnatural Causes into a course management system constituted a transformative use since it was being used in the context of a course not television. 3. A film student claimed that taking Bessie Smith's rendition of Strange Fruit from our film was a transformative use because he dropped it over different images - I suppose this would be based off as a mash-up. ASCAP won't agree. This demonstrates why, like Dennis, I would be happy to cede some gray areas of fair use in return for clearly defined restrictions endorsed, explained and enforced by universities. Even minimal reflection should reveal that If educational media can be used for free under fair use there will soon be no educational media. In the present atmosphere of impunity and entitlement, with schools like UCLA and American University going rogue, and copyright violators arrogating to themselves the tattered mantle of freedom fighters, the Fair Use Liberation Front seems headed for the same fate as the Symbionese Liberation Army and the Red Army Faction. It is lamentable that contributors should so enthusiastically embrace extra-legal guerilla warfare rather than reasoned negotiation based on a mature recognition that other people might have legitimate interests too. Larry Daressa Lawrence Daressa California Newsreel 500 Third Street, #505 San Francisco, CA 94107 phone: 415.284.7800 x302 fax: 415.284.7801 l...@newsreel.org www.newsreel.org -Original Message- From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu [mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of videolib-requ...@lists.berkeley.edu Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 2010 1:10 PM To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Subject: videolib Digest, Vol 27, Issue 4 Send videolib mailing list submissions to videolib@lists.berkeley.edu To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://calmail.berkeley.edu/manage/list/listinfo/videolib@lists.berkeley.edu or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to videolib-requ...@lists.berkeley.edu You can reach the person managing the list at videolib-ow...@lists.berkeley.edu When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of videolib digest... Today's Topics: 1. Re: Fair Use Liberation Army (Dennis Doros) 2. Re: Fair Use Liberation Army (Susan Albrecht) 3. Life on Earth copyright/duplication (Elizabeth Barksdale) -- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 11:31:05 -0500 From: Dennis Doros milefi...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Videolib] Fair Use Liberation Army To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Message-ID: 2ad8b9eb1002020831x5801760cxd8738e149d3f2...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Michael, You see Fair Use as the savior against greedy merchants. I see it as the excuse people use to steal rights. We're both wrong. I'm not saying we should eliminate it, just make it part of the copyright law and for my own sanity, call it something else. Fair Use is so vague that EVERYONE uses it and very few use it correctly. Last week, we found a college film society showing KILLER OF SHEEP, open to the public, publicized on their website and to the press, and charging $4.00 admission. Since it was in a classroom, after much discussion pointing out they didn't have the rights, the professor and the assistant claimed it as fair use. It took six hours of my time to straighten this out and in the end, they cancelled the film the day of the screening, called us pimps (essentially) and all sides were hurt. If the copyright law included fair use and defined it *exactly* (as I said, I don't even care if they say up to 50% of a film can be used and films and music are usable in other creations -- as long as there's *specific*limits), then we wouldn't have all these misunderstandings and would save this listserv hundreds if not thousands
Re: [Videolib] videolib Digest, Vol 26, Issue 71
Dear Gary, I wholeheartedly agree with you that we should do everything possible to resolve these issues without further acrimony and adversarial posturing. You are correct that the present volatile situation could easily escalate into a situation where some universities would not buy from some distributors and some distributors would not sell to some universities. As an AIME member, I would encourage that body to enter into informal discussions with any representative group of video librarians to attempt to draw up a code of best practices for the use of copyrighted digital media. That said, I think it has to be admitted that UCLA unilaterally adopted a policy which could generously be described as a creative application of copyright law and refused, when challenged, to reconsider its action - until this week. I noted that the professors interviewed for the article also seemed to argue that copyright protection should be exempted whenever it provided an impediment to an educational purpose, the chief such impediment, of course, being economic. I wonder if these same scholars consider their salaries an impediment to an educational purpose? After all, if we exempted universities from labor laws, they could afford to hire more faculty and educate more students? This is, of course, a reductio ad absurdum but it illustrates how even deconstructionists can privilege their our discourse. Copyright holders need to be paid as much as educators as one of the unavoidable costs of education. Several months ago, I asked this list-serve's opinion of a Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for OpenCourseWare prepared by the Center for Social Media at American University. I felt that the Code could be read as propounding a radical extension of the fair use doctrine by permitting the use of copyrighted material, in whole or in part, whenever it served an appropriate educational purpose, defined as illustration, explanation or criticism, not simply of the work but of its subject matter. I pointed out that much educational media was produced precisely to serve those ends. I then wrote to the Center for Social Media expressing my uncertainties and asking them to specify a single instance when an appropriate educational use would not constitute a fair use. They responded that: 1. The Code's drafting committee had not consulted copyright holders, publishers, their attorneys or librarians because these groups were consistent defenders of copyright (duh!) 2. They refused to give an example of when an educational use was not a fair use because that would impinge upon the discretion of individual instructors (what is a code if it does not impinge upon discretion: a license for larceny?) 3. The Code had been deliberately drafted to provide legal justification (cover?) for fair use applications outside currently accepted practice (this is the Code's preamble.) I also shared the Code and my reservations with Arnold Lutzker, the attorney for AIME in the UCLA case. Acting informally, outside his capacity as AIME's attorney and , he was generous enough to review for me his current understanding of the four criteria governing fair use. These excluded many uses which would be permitted under my interpretation of the Code. Therefore I conclude that reliance on the Code in its present form, without additional clarification, might render an institution vulnerable to an unpleasant and wholly avoidable fair use challenge. I think the UCLA case and the OpenSourceWare Code illustrate why it is important, as Gary argues, that media librarians and users and media producers and distributors have a structured forum to discuss their respective opinions concerning the use of digital media in higher education and perhaps develop some generally, if not universally, accepted principles for its practice. The method for accomplishing this, I refer to the wisdom of this list. Best Wishes, Larry Daressa Lawrence Daressa California Newsreel 500 Third Street, #505 San Francisco, CA 94107 phone: 415.284.7800 x302 fax: 415.284.7801 l...@newsreel.org www.newsreel.org -Original Message- From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu [mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of videolib-requ...@lists.berkeley.edu Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 12:23 PM To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Subject: videolib Digest, Vol 26, Issue 71 Send videolib mailing list submissions to videolib@lists.berkeley.edu To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://calmail.berkeley.edu/manage/list/listinfo/videolib@lists.berkeley.edu or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to videolib-requ...@lists.berkeley.edu You can reach the person managing the list at videolib-ow...@lists.berkeley.edu When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of videolib digest... Today's Topics: 1. [Fwd
