Hi Mike There are no primers...there are no court cases (yet)...there's only community wisdom and experience (which would be slim comfort or use in a court of law)
The UCLA case (pending) may break this log-jam, one way or another. Until then, what you put up as streamed video without license inside a learning management system or other campus network, how much you stream; to whom you provide access to these titles; and how long you provide access to them is pretty much a matter of how much risk the institution is willing to tolerate. > Can anyone recommend up-to-date copyright guides or primers for academic > faculty for streaming videos via course management software? > > Thanks. > > Mike > > Michael May > Adult Services Librarian > Carnegie-Stout Public Library > 360 West 11th Street > Dubuque, IA 52001-4697, USA > Phone: 563-589-4225 ext. 2244 > Fax: 563-589-4217 > Email: m...@dubuque.lib.ia.us<mailto:m...@dubuque.lib.ia.us> > 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.