Hi Amy,
At the first DMCA rulemaking in 2000, there was a proposal that users
should be able to convert non-US DVDs to US formats. The Registrar of
Copyrights and Librarian of Congress at that time denied the request for
this exemption, writing:
The region coding also seems to result in
Hello Amy,
We make sure the instructor understands that the DVD is a non-region 1
(and sometimes PAL) DVD, and that they / their students will require
specialized equipment to play it. We do have multi-region DVD and
Blu-ray players in our viewing carrels, so users can view them on-site
Hi All,
How do you handle situations when a professor wants a foreign language film
that is only available in a non-US region format?
Do you purchase the item and warn the professor of how the item will likely not
play on standard players, but that it would be possible to play on a computer
VLC player will play all regions on a computer without switching regions. There
was one blip once where this was not true for a month or so, but they fixed it.
Using a computer is the best solution because it also skips over the format
question (PAL vs. NTSC).
Judy, who has a pile of
Hi All,
How do you handle situations when a professor wants a foreign language film
that is only available in a non-US region format?
Do you purchase the item and warn the professor of how the item will likely not
play on standard players, but that it would be possible to play on a computer
Hi Chris,
How about, in place of SEA AROUND US, you might want to use
ONE OCEAN series of 4 programs produced by CBC¹s The Nature of Things
176 min. in all, or just one part at 42 minŠdepending on which part- from
the Birth of an Ocean, to the current Changing Sea.
Wow this raises some interesting questions but oddly I can't even find a
working link on the site for this film.
Let's assume there is working link on the site, do you want to show the
film in a physical classroom or just have them watch it. I would think
providing a link to legal, public
Does anyone have experience with this provider? We'd like to use the streamed
Halsted Street USA film for classroom viewing. Their rights page says to ask
for permission for classroom use but the contact page doesn't seem to work. My
question, however, is whether or not we are within our
