Dear colleagues:
The University at Albany, SUNY, is in the process of weeding VHS materials held
in our general collection, all of which was commercially produced. Regarding
those titles for which a more current format is not available we will need to
obtain copyright clearance before we
Thanks Jessica. The publisher does not give any explanation. Their website have
multiple pricing and just says Educational/Library and describes it as for
classroom use. No mention of the law.
Farhad Moshiri, MLS
Post-Masters Advanced Study Certificate
Audiovisual Music Librarian
University
Well I give them credit for that. I understand why the multiple pricing is
done but I think the only way it can work is if publisher insists on clear
contract which could take the form of a I have read and agreed to these
conditions type check out. I just don't think most do that.
On Thu, Jul
Well at the risk of being jumped on VHS does not fit the copyright code
definition of an obsolete format so unless you document that every VHS you
are weeding is literally in the process of deteriorating not just a pain in
the neck to use the law does not let you make digital copies. I have VHS
Thank you, Jessica. I suppose we can also make a case based on age and use that
items in our collection are deteriorating. Our problem is that most of our
patrons don’t have a VHS player at home; there are none in our classrooms. The
material, as a result, is not being used. Those that are
the catch 22 is that when institutions make copies of out of print VHS
titles it makes it that much harder for rights holder to justify the
enormous cost of putting smaller titles out in digital format. In theory
libraries say they will be only to glad to upgrade to a legal copy if one
is released
Karen,
Although Howard Besser and Walter Forsberg's work on the Video at Risk project
mostly had to do with reformatting deteriorating VHS, there may still be useful
information here about how they went about searching for and contacting
copyright holders.
Just curious about the enormous cost of putting smaller titles out in digital
format, how much does it cost to burn a DVD from one's computer?
Matt
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Matt Ball
Director, Woodruff Library
Pace Academy
966 W. Paces Ferry Rd.
Atlanta, GA 30327
mb...@paceacademy.org
Seriously Matt? Dennis is MUCH better at this. But you have to go back to
the original material often 35mm fillm elements do a decent new transfer,
box it, promote it etc. The whole point of digital is to get high quality
looking material. If one just took some old VHS master and dubbed it , it
Good point. Stream or download are fine, depending on the terms of use!!! Or
did I just open another pickle jar. (:
From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu
[mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Jessica Rosner
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Libraries don't have VCRs anymore. A video that no one can watch might as well
not exist. I would rather have a crappy VHS-to-DVD copy than nothing at all.
And I'm willing to pay for it.
Also, it's just a matter of time before VHS is an official obsolete format and
then, as my mom would
If it is an educational doc with little interest in visuals you might get
some people to OK a transfer but it like showing a black and white
photocopy of the Mona Lisa in an art house to dub an old VHS to DVD. It is
both deeply insulting to the people who made the films and illegal.
I would not
OOPS hid send WAY to early on that last one. VHS players are a pain in the
ass but it is financial and convenience concern to dump them. They still
work and the law recognizes them as a valid format so until you can't get
one as oppossed to dumping the ones you have you have no right to make a
That’s way too broad of a statement, Matt.
We do, indeed, have VCRs here, as well as an RTI machine to continue to service
our VHS tapes. We even (gasp!) still have VCRs in several classrooms. A
faculty or staff member needing to reserve a room for a screening can even do a
search of our
We have four VHS players in the library, and most of our classrooms are still
equipped with them (at least for now). We still have several hundred titles on
VHS and many are used regularly.
Michael
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Now I remember why I stopped posting to this list.
videolib@lists.berkeley.edu writes:
OOPS hid send WAY to early on that last one. VHS players are a pain in the ass
but it is financial and convenience concern to dump them. They still work and
the law recognizes them as a valid format so until
Matt asked: How much does it cost to burn a DVD from one's computer?
I'll go ahead and answer that even though it was a rhetorical question.
Buying a one-off title from a filmmaker / distributor has costs, even if
the 'sticker price' of the disc is minimal. This often involves
extensive
Just started to pay attention to this discussion and saw my name bandied
about. I once had another distributor who told me he was very proud to
spend $3000 to transfer a film to digital. I didn't have the heart to say
that I've spent that much on one scene. And when I saw his transfer, the
entire
TWO WEEKS!! Are you ready, Dennis? Is Amy ready? Is your SON ready?
Since Princeton starts pretty late, we’re still over 4 weeks away, even with my
daughter’s freshman “outdoor adventure” 5-day experience at the start.
I am decidedly not ready.
Susan Albrecht
Library Media Acquisitions
Dagnab it! Meant that just for Dennis, obviously. It’s been a long, long,
long week….
Susan Albrecht
Library Media Acquisitions Manager
Graduate Fellowship Advisor
Wabash College Lilly Library
765-361-6216
765-361-6295 fax
albre...@wabash.edumailto:albre...@wabash.edu
A measured and thoughtful response as usual, Dennis.
M-
videolib@lists.berkeley.edu writes:
Just started to pay attention to this discussion and saw my name bandied
about. I once had another distributor who told me he was very proud to spend
$3000 to transfer a film to digital. I didn't
Dennis Doros, I second that emotion!
totally agree that A-V preservation should be part of ALA annual
programming--and it would be wonderful if AMIA could help out with expertise.
The VideoRoundtable is looking for program proposals for 2015 right now. I
hope someone will rise to the challenge!
Dear Maureen,
We has nearly 1000 members across the country and around the world. I
believe that our board member Elena Rossi-Snook is having a panel at ALA
but I'm not entirely sure. But if the VideoRound Table would like to
propose a topic for 2015 and I can find three or four amazing
I am late to this now lengthy conversation, in which many others have already
participated. But permit me to make several statements of fact, not opinion,
related to the issue at hand.
First and foremost, in response to Karen's original question and subject line.
Contrary to what others on
I don't have time to argue this in detail either (on my way to Cooperstown)
but is particularly absurd to claim you can duplicate an allegedly
deteriorating work and circulate it i off campus when the law very
clearly states it is NOT to go off premise. What does fair use have to
do with the
Thanks Deg.
Also, I confess to speaking hyperbolically (is that a word?) when I said that
libraries don’t have VCRs anymore. As I mentioned to Jeff off-line (as I was
making sure he hadn’t choked on his water) I should've said Increasingly,
libraries have
no way to provide access to VHS
We are engaged in a weeding/removal project at my institution as well. We
are purchasing DVD replacement copies of VHS tapes where possible and
removing VCRs from classrooms and from the library's equipment collection.
Our goal is to remove all VHS/VCR resources from campus by January 2015. At
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