I would say no. Relevant questions are: Is Dr. Fellini a Film Studies professor? Who owns the DVDs? Are any of the DVDs copy-protected?
The right to circumvent copy-protection to make clips for FACE TO FACE classroom use is accorded only to Film and Media profs using DVDs purchased by their departments (not personal or college library copies). I would say that if Dr. Fellini is a film studies prof and the DVDs belong to a dept. library then he can make one copy, or maybe a couple, of a clip compilation. If he is not a film studies prof then he can only make such a clip compilation if the DVDs have no copy-protection encoding. If he makes the clip compilation, after using it in class he could lend it to his students who want to copy it though..... To be frank, I don't see what the point of it would be, except to stoke his own ego about the favoriteness of his favorite scenes. It would be like handing out a xerox of your favorite passages from Shakespeare, or something. What does that teach, at a college level? Judy Shoaf ________________________________ From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu [videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Randal Baier [rba...@emich.edu] Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 9:00 PM To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: [Videolib] [Fwd: FW: quick response....] What a brilliant scenario. Can I crib this for a workshop? It seems to me that this is legal. It seems to be crying out for political action by the FAIR USE LIBERATION ARMY. But I'm a little bit wondering about the distribution of the clips by DVD. But these are clips, little snippets ... and yet ... what exactly do these clips show? Are they like on the level of 20 sec. Bette Davis looking into the eyes of her beau at the end of Dark Victory and convincing him that she can see? ... or are they longer, like the end of "I am a Walrus" on Magical Mystery Tour. You've gotta see the whole endlessly Noah's Ark of it to really appreciate the song. i.e. are they so pithy that their essence compromises the actually movie .. a simulacrum. I don't think so. They seem to be examples devoted to ... oh, maybe "core issues in cinema," or something of that ilk. If I were an attendee at the workshop I guess I'd vote for the time honored community of scholars option. But you know, ask a lawyer and who knows, we might be illegal most of the time! Best, Randal Baier From: Rosen, Rhonda J. Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 12:21 PM To: 'videolib@lists.berkeley.edu<mailto:videolib@lists.berkeley.edu>' Subject: quick response.... Everyone... We have a quick and dirty workshop for some faculty this afternoon. We have a scenario and we find we are differing in our opinions within our own department, and was curious what you'd say. Would you mind giving me a quick response? Thanks, Rhonda Dr. Fellini wants to create a mini-"digital library" of movie scenes for his students. He obtains (legal) dvds of the films, burns the selected scenes onto a DVD and distributes copies to each student-is this legal? Rhonda Rosen| Head, Media & Access Services William H. Hannon Library | Loyola Marymount University One LMU Drive, MS 8200 | Los Angeles, CA 90045-2659 rro...@lmu.edu<mailto:rro...@lmu.edu>| 310/338-4584| http://library.lmu.edu Gary Handman Director Media Resources Center Moffitt Library UC Berkeley 510-643-8566 ghand...@library.berkeley.edu<mailto:ghand...@library.berkeley.edu> http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC "I have always preferred the reflection of life to life itself." --Francois Truffaut ________________________________ 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.
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.
