Thanks to you all, the brain trust, out there! Very impressive how you brought out the main points so quickly and concisely.
Clearly, purchasing rights is preferred -- we have a state portal, NJVid, that is dedicated to serving just that; affordability is the issue there. But I also appreciate those of you who attempt to respond reasonably to demand for titles where rights are not available for any price. These are a great concern. Especially when I think of all the feature films used here, it seems like it will be a long time before this legitimate demand is met. I also appreciate those of you who made a clear distinction between online courses (yes, they deserve the same resources) and streaming reserves as supplements to regular face to face teaching (no, unless rights are purchased). I can tell you that my charge this year was to offer some kind of video streaming operation for course reserves, but now, with the UCLA development, my institution wants to wait until the case is settled. Too bad that putting out complete versions has now inhibited even the possibility of streaming portions for a limited time. I don't know how effective offering up a portion would be; on the other hand, even before the ucla case, there was not a precedent in my library for making a whole copy of anything anyway. So. . . the very good advice to pursue an internal institutional strategy to convince administrators to take a stand on asserting the rights of educational users, has, in fact, been set back by this ucla case. I'm at square one again. There's no doubt copyright law needs more attack. On the other hand, the issue of 'transformative' uses is interestingly parlayed here in a new brief some of you may not have seen yet --http://www.librarycopyrightalliance.org/bm~doc/ibstreamingfilms_021810.pdf. In the meantime, we and our users wait -- thanks again, Jane -- Jane Sloan Media Librarian 732-932-9783 x37 Rutgers University Libraries */Please consider the environment before printing this email/* VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors.
