Yes, there should be no issue in defeating the copyright protection as long as
you have authorization from the copyright holder to do so. From Section 1201 of
the Copyright Act.
"(A) to "circumvent a technological measure" means to descramble a scrambled
work, to decrypt an encrypted work, or o
Good question.
The direct quote from Head of Digital Scholarship is "Overriding any type of
copyright protection is a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act,
even if doing so is not an infringement of copyright."
From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu
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if the author is the copyright holder there should be no problem circumventing
the copy protection.
If he is not and you are claiming section 108 preservation then you can borrow
it from another library to make your copy.
Jo Ann
Jo Ann Reynolds
Reserve Services Coordinator
University of Connect
I don't understand why overriding the copy protection would be illegal when you
have permission from the copyright holder???
Sarah
Sarah E. McCleskey
Head of Access Services, Film and Media
112 Axinn Library
123 Hofstra University
Hempstead, NY 11549
516-463-5076
sarah.e.mccles...@hofstra.edu
Here's our quandary:
Our university library owns the series Nature Perfected: The Story of the
Garden, made in 1995. It's a six-volume set on VHS and not available on DVD or
in any other format, to the best of my knowledge.
Two of our landscape architecture profs want to continue using these tap
