Can someone explain to me the difference in the effect on the copyright holder
between having an instructor show a film in class and time shifting the viewing
of that film outside of class through streaming technology to the same
students? I don't want to get into how such viewing may or may not
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Hannah, isn't this exactly the reason why copyright laws need to be
preserved to prevent such misuse of technology? As I've mentioned in earlier
emails, illegal bitload torrents are destroying the art film industry.
Yes, of course, we're seemingly on different sides. Librarians want to
protect
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
I thank Gary for his common sense and I do agree with him.
My view is that having a one-sided conversation where on that side
everything is permitted (and uses photocopies and papers to justify the
entire use of a film -- while ignoring the transferring of copy-protected
formats and other legal ju
The bottom line is, Hannah, it's gonna take test cases to solve this.
There are no existing "legal realities" in this area--only informed
opinion and speculation.
Colleagues and I have been advocating and generally working our brains out
on these issues for years...
Gary
By the way: the origina
Hi Gary-- I'd like to think that the brief reflects legal realities, at
least in an ideal world. The copyright landscape is becoming increasingly
oppressive, and the whole point of copyright is losing its original
purpose-- which was to make works more accessible. It seems as if copyright
is now fr
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 wor
These questions are for my public library colleagues. Please reply to me off
list and if others are interested, I will post compiled responses.
1. Are you offering any form of streaming video for your patrons?
2. If so, what provider(s) are you using?
3. How long have you been offering the
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_02
Thank you everyone for the citations, keep them coming! As Gary noted, I
have received a couple emails citing the Library Trends articles. In fact,
it was this issue that inspired my suggestion to include a media
bibliography in the newsletter. I'm trying to shake the tree a bit to see
if there
Scott:
As you know, articles in the College and University Media Review are
often up the VRT alley. See some selections below by some of our usual
suspects.
Carleton
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Carleton L. Jackson
Librarian, Nonprint Media Services Library
University of Maryland Libraries
0300 R. Lee Hornbake Library
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