Hi Jacqueline The recent DMCA ruling is basically about exemptions for circumventing DVD encryption for the purpose of taking out short clips for use in teaching (or other academic enterprises). That's all. The laws relating to the specific USES of those clips are another matter altogether. Generally, I think it would be considerably safer to use the clips in, say, a face-to-face classroom presentation, than the uses you cite. On the other hand, if your institution has a somewhat higher tolerance for risk, I'd say putting the clips (a limited number and short) up on a password protected course web site for the short-term might also fly (again...under fair use, not DMCA).
gary handman > Would the DCMA "Exemptions from Prohibition on Circumvention of > Technological Measures that Control Access to Copyrighted Works", Section > 201 (a)(1) title 17, US Code allow a professor to put a short clip from a > DVD on an electronic course page? I'm thinking no. > > Thanks! > Jacqueline > > -- > Jacqueline L. Protka > Digital Assets and Media Librarian > Corcoran Library, Corcoran Gallery/College of Art + Design > 500 Seventeenth St., NW > Washington, DC 20006 > t. 202-639-1765/f. 202-628-7908 > e. jpro...@corcoran.org > www.corcoran.org/library > www.facebook.com/corcoranlibrary > www.twitter.com/corcoranlibrary > > 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. > Gary Handman Director Media Resources Center Moffitt Library UC Berkeley 510-643-8566 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.
