however some confusion as to if they are in fact under
copyright. I am not sure the Russians ever signed GATT and without that they
would not be eligible for US copyright having never registered their films in
the first place. I will if anyone knows the answer to that one.
On Mon, Jun 24,
Our crack media librarian, Matt Ball, is sailing the high seas this summer with
Semester at Sea, and I'm trying to pick up some of his media librarian
requests. Here's one that has me stumped:
Does anyone know the rights status or rights holder of Aleksandrov's Circus
(Tsirk), 1936?
I'd appre
Unfortunately a consideration of the particular needs of the public libraries
was out of scope for this project. I'm awfully sorry about that, because we
all recognized how important the public libraries are to this picture. And I
know that ALA's Office of Information Technology Policy is inte
This project went on for so long, and had so many twists and turns, I'm not at
all surprised that anyone would lose track of its progress.
Gary, I have only gratitude for your constructive and insightful feedback in
the survey and on our first draft.
We did try to underscore the fact that m
Dear Colleagues,
The Fair Use and Video Project has posted online its document titled "Community
Practices in the Fair Use of Video in Libraries,"
http://pages.shanti.virginia.edu/Fair_Use_and_Video/.
For an introduction to the document, please see Carrie's Russell's blog post on
ALA'S District
Hi all,
The Fair Use and Video Working Group is holding an informal open meeting in New
Orleans to discuss our project to define community practices in fair use for
media librarians. We'll review our intentions and methods and discuss our
preliminary findings- where we found consensus in the c
