Chuck, Do you think UCLA lawyers are idiots and just pulled their streaming for fun? You want to encourage another school to have to pay legal fees while this is still ongoing? Remember Federal Law trumps professors who think they have a right to digitize and stream copyrighted material. Between Georgia State and UCLA backing off , not from threats by big studio or corpoorations, but from independent booksellers and distributors whose work was being stolen, you would think that you might not encourage another institution to try this.
Is it your position that you can digitize entire books and films for streaming for classes? Inquiring minds want to know. If you do believe this than I assume you that all schools that do this will be upfront and announce their policy openly instead of trying to hide it. Jessica On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Chuck McCann <cmcc...@fsu.edu> wrote: > The answer is, "possibly". Jane, explore the option of using course > management software like BlackBoard, for example, to facilitate this > endeavor. This will provide a closed network that is "reasonably secure". In > addition it is by default only accessible to students on record for a class > that has materials on video course reserves. Next, start building campus > partnerships, convince teaching departments, particularly the faculty > members that actually have materials on video course reserves, that this is > a great and matter of fact essential service for scholarship. > Simultaneously, talk to your library administration and get them involved. > You'll need their support because only they have the voice to push this to > the University President's Office. Let the decision be made at the top of > the ladder, but prepare and build your case from the bottom up. Don't let > people scare you away from this, all you are doing is bring attention to a > much needed service, again let those higher up make the final decision, and > remember federal law trumps a distributors/artist contrived prohibitions, if > your University has the legal muscle to push back, then this is what they > are for. > > Best, > Chuck > > > On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 9:42 AM, Val Gangwer <vgang...@mbc.edu> wrote: > >> Umm...no. Until the legal field is cleared, and we have more bandwidth, >> it's not going to happen here. >> Val >> >> On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 3:37 PM, Jane Sloan <jsl...@rci.rutgers.edu>wrote: >> >>> Hello all, >>> >>> For those of you who have a couple spare minutes (!) >>> I'm interested in some current information on: >>> >>> if/under what conditions you are creating streaming video files to be >>> placed under a password for course reserves. >>> >>> even a 'yes' or 'no' >>> will be much appreciated, >>> >>> thank you, >>> 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. >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Valerie Gangwer >> Media Services Director >> Mary Baldwin College >> >> a...@graftonlibrary >> #7267 >> >> 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. >> >> > > > -- > Chuck McCann > Strozier Library Scholars Common > 850-644-5924 > http://guides.lib.fsu.edu/multimedia > http://guides.lib.fsu.edu/profile.php?uid=12569 > http://www.youtube.com/user/fsulibraries > > 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.
