If the documentaries are designed to accompany the textbook, the publishers may
be willing to give permission for the streaming version as an ancillary.
If the documentaries are designed to accompany a textbook not used in the
course, they can't be used, I believe.
If they are independent documen
NB that one on yesasia is tagged
ExxonMobil Masterpiece Theater - Heat of the Sun/Mystery!
so it is probably not the one being sought.
Judy Shoaf
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On Behalf Of CAPLAN Victor
Can someone explain to me the difference in the effect on the copyright holder
between having an instructor show a film in class and time shifting the viewing
of that film outside of class through streaming technology to the same
students? Mb
As an educator, I am on the side of the streaming v
NB Jessica, Marilyn said specifically that this program has been digitized and
steamed. That's why she thought it might be PD. Note her question below. The
entire program is already online, apparently on several sites. So your worst
fears etc.
This series is a history of the computer that ends
Did you realize there is a film soon to be released?
http://www.rareexportsmovie.com/en
Judy
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To:
That site Scott indicated looks interesting. However, I have a basic question.
Isn't it illegal to make a special price for one group of customers? As I
recall, the institutional price does not in fact always include PPR.
Individual purchases disk for reasonable price but waives legal right to u
Note well that ANY email purporting to come from ANYONE that asks for your
password to ANYTHING is an attempt to steal your identity. Do not reply to
such an email.
Judy
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Don't look now
Episode of Brideshead Revisited
Judy
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To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu
Subject: [Videolib] Films set in Venice
I'll kick o
Isn't there another aspect of TEACH that is relevant-that is, that it speaks
only of distance education courses and not of regular courses that meet in the
classroom? The course management system for these 2 types of class might be
identical, but I think TEACH addresses only the distance ed, whe
Michael Brewer quoted the register of copyright's recent exception:
(1) Motion pictures on DVDs that are lawfully made and acquired and that are
protected by the Content Scrambling System when circumvention is accomplished
solely in order to accomplish the incorporation of short portions of moti
Maybe the question could be solved by looking at budgets. How much is budgeted
for Canadian schools of all kinds to purchase the right to perform films for
students? Presumably this is a separate item from the budget for buying films,
with or without PPR. There is a central clearing-house for ed
I had an idea which however I never put into action. That was to establish a
Twitter account and have the lab assistant post to it when an in-demand item
became available. Those who were in a class with a reserve item could follow
the tweets on days when the item was due
Judy
_
It is currently available, along with a lot of Criterion films, on Hulu Plus.
I sent a general inquiry about streaming to Jon Mulvaney of Criterion
mulva...@criterion.com
and he replied by referring me to Hulu Plus:
"Institutional streaming licenses are not available at this time. I do
hope yo
It's worth noting that Judge Evans actually emphasized that it is legitimate to
excerpt an entire chapter (even a chapter written by a different author from
the rest of the book) in order to provide students with a context for the
material to be discussed. That is, she justified including MORE T
t?
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mailto:jsh...@ufl.edu>> wrote:
It's worth noting that Judge Evans actually emphasized that it is legitimate to
excerpt an entire chapter (even a chapter written by a different author from
the rest of the book) in order to provide
I once took that personality test online and it said I am most like Lucy in
Peanuts. My husband, who is most like Schroeder, doesn’t let me forget it.
Nickels welcome.
Judge Evans talks about the Kinko’s and Michigan Documents cases, and disagrees
about the “good parts” argument. In only one of
ways
welcome.
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Rep
There used to be several tools for evaluating public domain and other legal
situations with respect to specific media items at http://librarycopyright.net/
But today I find that site (and other sites which purport to have these tools)
are marked with red warning signs that they are dangerous and
site up and running byJune 1, 2012. We apologize for this inconvenience.
No red warnings, etc. that I could see.
Jeanne Little
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 9:30 AM, Shoaf,Judith P
mailto:jsh...@ufl.edu>> wrote:
There used to be several tools for evaluating public domain and other legal
situ
I wanted to reply to this because nobody seems to be paying attention to what
Mary Lou actually says:
I am appealing to the collective wisdom of the list! I am helping a dance
professor put together an online course on the history of dance. She is using
multiple library resources - some will
With Miss Vivien Leigh as Jessica.
Thank you for everything, Gary. Your reflections of life have been invaluable
to me, at least.
Judy
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Did you try learner.org or 1-800-learner? That's Annenberg and they may be able
to sell copies.
Judy Shoaf
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[mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Deborah Benrubi
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To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu
Sub
In the 47 cases Judge Evans evaluated for possible Fair Use, she found 13
excerpts which were longer than her "distinctly small" criteria, but in only 5
of these cases did she find in favor of the plaintiffs.
Basically, because the kind of use (educational, non-commercial) weighs
strongly in fa
Rick said:
Now, if we could also FIRST quote the text to which we are going to respond...,
and then SECOND respond to the quoted text, meaning that your
response will be *AFTER* the quoted text (the text to which you are
responding) I moderate several tech lists and I don't put up with anythi
Susan at Wabash College wrote:
Richard, you asked if any of us ever try to work with
publishers/producers/small distributors. My answer is YES, and I did so in
yesterday's case . I'm not necessarily opposed to the concept of tiered
pricing for these kinds of films, but I *do* object to having
I'm not sure how helpful this site is, but there is
http://www.echinesemovie.com/
which has some subtitled region 0 films, anyway.
Judy Shoaf
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relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control,
ite that has or had US rights holders and a few clicks of the mouse can
usually confirm that, beyond that you just have to go with your gut but just
understand nothing they sell would be considered a legal copy.
On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 8:59 PM, Shoaf,Judith P
mailto:jsh...@ufl.edu>> wro
Farhad,
Recent decisions (Hathi Trust, Georgia) imply that digitizing texts is not a
special form of copying (though neither of these decisions remotely allows for
streaming entire movies to students, by any stretch). The DMCA (chapter 12 of
Title 17) however makes it an infringement to circumv
Some years ago I was keen on Conrad Veidt and Anton Walbrook and collected what
I could find of their early stuff via ebay (my personal foray into the realm of
dubious copies). Walbrook is in Viktor und Viktoria and my VHS copy is as
Jessica described--very casually labeled, and I remember it as
I saw this query on another list and thought that Videolib might have a clue
about the answer.
Judy Shoaf
Dear Colleagues:
Would anyone have information on how I might obtain a copy of the following
documentary series?
Title: The Great Depression
Episodes: 1. 'America: The Hoover Years'; 2. '
I was doing some research recently into First Sale, and looked at the original
US Supreme Court case, Bobbs-Merill vs. whatever Macy's was then. The publisher
had put a label on their books saying they could not be sold for less than $1,
but Macy's was violating that warning label. The court obv
Cf. the law:
§ 110 · Limitations on exclusive rights:
Exemption of certain performances and displays
Notwithstanding the provisions of section 106, the following are not
infringements
of copyright:
(1) performance or display of a work
by instructors or pupils
in the course of fa
The most interesting aspect of this is of course that the authors of the
articles in these journals make nothing from sales of the journals.
The university pays the prof. to do the research and write the article.
The university promotes the prof. on the basis of the article, and raises his
pay.
. Are newscasts somehow less protected than other copyrighted works? Neither
the UCLA or Internet Archive site say anything about agreements with the news
networks.
Chris Lewis
***
Yes, newscasts are less protected than other copyrighted works. Creative works
have more protection t
Isn't there a famous cameo of Hitchcock getting off a bus in a movie? Found it
on Youtube, North by Northwest.
Judy
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[mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Nellie J Chenault
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To: videolib@lists.berke
Jessica wrote: I don't believe there will be any change in the US but since
most academic publishers make the overwhelming majority of their sales in
financial terms in US, Canada, Europe and Australia, I suspect they will either
stop selling the lower priced versions in Asia, Africa etc or pric
The UCLA case was dismissed, twice. Until some valid plaintiff names a valid
defendant (as for example in the Georgia State case, which involved books
scanned and put on line), there will be no proper decision about fair use in
the case or opportunity to appeal that decision.
The second time A.
Replying to Jessica:
Judge Evans in Georgia State did NOT set a "bright line". She said that her
rule (10% or less of a book with 10 or fewer chapters, 1 chapter of a book with
more chapters) defined a "distinctly small," i.e. safe amount. An argument
could clearly be made that 12% or 15% wa
Yikes, I'm a mess. Evans said the distinctly large amount was NOT infringing,
because the lack of available licensing for that work weighed in favor of GSU.
Judy
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Jessica said:
As for the 2nd part about using much larger if not entire works if they are not
available to be licensed, this is where among others I think the judge went off
the deep end and is likely to be struck down on appeal.
I agree this is quite a radical argument. She implied that to say t
Jessica, I believe that the webinar presenter was not relying on the GSU case
for the question of streaming an entire video, but on Judge Marshall's opinion
in the UCLA case. The defendants argued that streaming the video was
time-shifting (as in the Sony Betamax case) of a classroom viewing (a
Thanks, Sheila. This clarifies things for me, especially what the issues are in
Point 2.
Judy
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Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2013 1:22 PM
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Subject:
There's a smallish teaching media library which grew out of the old Audiovisual
dept. which maintained both projectors and films. It was the Film Library, and
then the Media Library. Now it has come under the control of Film Studies and
they renamed it FMR (that's what's on the door, with no exp
Re the Criterion collection (Janus): They stream via Hulu. and this may be why
they don't offer a separate license. That could actually mean you can assign
students to subscribe. The problem is that you probably can't control which
films will be available during the term.
Judy
VIDEOLIB is in
Title 17, section 109, of the US Code:
"Notwithstanding the provisions of section 106 (3), the owner of a particular
copy or phonorecord lawfully made under this title, or any person authorized by
such owner, is entitled, without the authority of the copyright owner, to sell
or otherwise dispos
Nahum,
I misspoke when I summarized the law.
When you sell a copy, your right to control how the buyer disposes of that
particular copy is exhausted. However, other rights remain with you.
The buyer does *not* get the right to make copies of the DVD, show it in public
or on TV, or adapt it in
Criterion Pictures, which handles tons of rights for various theatrical films,
http://media2.criterionpic.com/
is not the same as the Criterion Collection
http://www.criterion.com/library
--the latter is the one which is working with Hulu.
Judy
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Guidelines for schools making and keeping off-air recordings (Kastenmeier
guidelines) were pretty limited and limiting, though. I would say the best
argument for keeping them is fair use: the purpose is research/scholarly; they
are news programs and so mostly factual rather than creative; they
Does anyone know if it's possible to get hold of the following films?
Something in the Air ("Uma Onda No Ar," 2002) dir. Helvecio Ratton
De Passagem (Passing By, 2003), dir. Ricardo Elias.
Judy Shoaf
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The original request had to do with VHS cassettes, not DVDs.
I think that any computer DVD player will play a PAL DVD. VLC is special
because it plays any region.
Judy
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on beh
I should add to this that I have never heard of a computer DVD drive locking on
a system (PAL/NTSC) the way they lock on regions after a few switches. The
ability to play the signal correctly is built is, I thought. Has anyone else
heard of this? --Judy
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I just want t
I don't know if this helps but passwords at University of Florida involve a
unique, secure identifier . If a video was being streamed remotely through the
library or another service, the student would sign in with the same
authentication used when, for example, viewing courses and grades, collec
These very large courses are called MOOCs, i.e. "massively open online
courses." The "open" means that anyone at all can sign up. They are not the
kind of regularly scheduled courses for credit that students enrolled at a
university take. Now, they are going to evolve, but they do pose a really
This is quite an old situation, from the 90s I think. It doesn't fit your
problem very well as this was a college teaching library, not a university
research library, and all the interactions were personal.
A sociology prof made a film about a local transgender person who was earning
money for
Does anyone know where I can buy this DVD with English subtitles? I see this
on amazon but I'm not sure it's the right one with the subtitles:
http://www.amazon.com/Hour-Furnaces-hora-hornos-neocolonialismo/dp/B002J5EA3C
We have a copy that looks like this one, anyway, except that there is ex
I know our local “art house” just this past Christmas switched to digital. They
had to do a Kickstarter to fund it.
Judy
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[mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Chris Lewis
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Subject:
The trouble is that the case was very poorly designed to test the question of
whether streaming can be fair use. True, the judge gave an opinion, but the
grounds for dismissal actually had to do with the fact that AIME should not
have been the plaintiff and the UCLA Board of Trustees should not
Nahum is worried about
"Universities that have online courses for people that just take a one time
course (MOOC) and in fact not registered students learning for a degree."
It seems to me that these Massively Open Online Courses, which are available to
anyone at all, do in fact pose a huge prob
Re. the DVD that comes with the textbook and workbook for a language course-I
can speak to that specific case because I run a language lab, aka language
learning center, foreign language media resource, etc.
I think it is reasonable and even important to make available to the students
on campus
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Sent: Monday, February 24, 2014 11:16 AM
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Subject: Re: [Videolib] Textbooks & Copyright
Re. the DVD that comes with the textbook and workbook for a language course—I
can speak to that specific case because I run a language lab
I took that MOOC and really enjoyed it a LOT. It sharpened my sense re. a lot
of the legal problems, and clarified that one does indeed have to consider
situations on a case by case basis.
However. At one point I was discussing in the MOOC, with another student, a
Particular Situation (I forge
Here's the Inside Higher Ed one:
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/10/20/federal-appeals-court-rejects-georgia-state-us-10-percent-rule-determining-fair-use
Judy
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I was reading your analysis and feeling very confused until I remembered that
this is a list for VIDEO.
For academic books (which the Georgia State case addresses), your comment is
just not true: "So doesn't it stand to reason that when considering fair use
for a work sold primarily to the educ
netary
rewards.
Does anyone want to weigh in from a video perspective?
Regards,
Bob
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2. Re: another summary of Georgia State appeal (Shoaf,Judith P)
From: "Shoa
time does not permit.
Regards,
Bob
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3. Re: videolib Digest, Vol 83, Issue 32 (Shoaf,Judith P)
From: "Shoaf,Judith P" mailto:jsh...@ufl.edu>>
Date: October
Unfortunately these DVDs from the National Theatre do not include the
performances from National Theater Live. My impression is that they are
insisting that these be seen only in a theatrical setting. One hopes that at
some point they will release them. I would love to see Helen Mirren as Phedre
To me, "legacy" and "heritage" are good words because they imply "media for
which we ought to maintain playback equipment."
The other day someone was trying to explain to me about a documentary
film-maker who made films-"real films, on, you know, film, not video."
Conversely, someone corrected a
I just checked on Amazon and oddly there are tons of brand new cassette players
available in a variety of types.
Jessica
*
I think it depends on what was on the tapes. For example, 8-tracks were mostly
for commercial material which, if it was preserved, migrated to other formats.
No
) which includes
"educational" material sold on cassette is not an obsolete format. If you have
personal interviews, research etc on cassette that is a different kettle of
fish.
On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 11:30 AM, Shoaf,Judith P
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I just checked on
There are legal R2 copies on ebay (released by Artificial Eye)
Judy Shoaf
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they used copies?
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mailto:jsh...@ufl.edu>> wrote:
There are legal R2 copies on ebay (released by Artificial Eye)
Judy Shoaf
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There's an older film (1996) which was made for TV broadcast, 51 minutes, about
a particular Deaf community. It was called The Ragin' Cajun: Usher Syndrome.
It was originally part of a series: Oliver Sacks, The Mind Traveler, which
looked at a number of different neurological abnormalities.
R
Jessica is right; there are only guidelines, not bright lines. I think that
makes sense, from a more userly point of view. Even in the GSU case the 10% was
not proposed by the judge as an absolute, just a number she would balance with
the other factors as being probably safe. But as Jessica says
Jessica noted:
"not that it really matters here but pretty sure the judge in the GSU did
propose 10% as some absolute max which had the amusing result of upsetting both
sides."
What she said was that the 10%/1 chapter of a book with more than 10 chapters
is a "decidedly small" amount, not a ma
I will add to what others have said that versions of this idea were kicking
around in the videocassette era. It was hard to find multi-standard VCRs and
even though the image degraded if you made the copy across standards, some
folks said that you could make the copy if you destroyed the origin
There used to be a good website for Argentinean films, dvdmuseum.
It looks like they have migrated to Facebook. You or the professor could
correspond with them.
https://www.facebook.com/dvdmuseum/
Unfortunately the facebook site seems mostly to feature American blockbusters
in translation.
Also,
?Um, I don't think that would qualify under Section 108. There are a number of
copies available on Abebooks.
Judy
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on behalf of Randal
Sent: Friday, August 5, 2016 12:27 AM
To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu
Subject: Re:
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 region-fre
Not instructional videos, but there are currently a lot of veterinary "reality"
TV shows, on National Geographic channels and Animal Planet. They show
veterinarians doing surgery, setting bones, getting tar off eagles, castrating
yaks, etc. (My husband has become fascinated with them, esp. the
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