Dennis,

I hope the NMM Board will consider you to be its guest speaker, or at least 
panel presenter at the 2016 NMM! ☺

I also look forward to seeing your film in the near future.

Best,
Mo

From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu 
[mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Dennis Doros
Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2015 11:23 AM
To: Video Library questions <videolib@lists.berkeley.edu>
Subject: Re: [Videolib] Grassroots collaboration Was RE: Copyright question: 
American Playhouse Films

And I too have to send my regrets, but as those on our mailing list know, Amy 
and I have produced our first feature film ever 
(http://filmbysamuelbeckett.com/) --ironically, some of it's based on fair use 
-- and it's having it's world premiere on October 17th. To be honest, my travel 
these days is mostly regarding the politics and laws to save films, the fight 
to preserve ALL materials (outtakes and "unknown" films along with digital-born 
works are being left behind), and any of my knowledge of copyright is just an 
outgrowth of those efforts. Distribution allows me to afford to do that.

I do agree with Jessica that most of these meetings on fair use have been 
unbalanced without representatives of rights holders present and there's a lot 
of wringing of hands over the perceived strength of the copyright holders. The 
reality is that with the internet, copyright infringement is so vast that the 
rights holders have almost zero control of their materials these days. And most 
studios are afraid to sue over new technology uses because they are afraid of 
losing. And they're fairly ignorant on copyright as it turns out. (I hear about 
their meetings and it's not impressive.) The multitude of copyright laws across 
the world also create further confusion.

BUT -- I've stayed with this listserv for many years and have waged battles, 
expressed sympathy and celebrated triumphs with many of you (still waiting for 
that Cubs miracle) because I do believe that this is the best forum for 
discussing our differences. I do have a life long love of librarians as the 
keepers of culture. (Though to be brutally honest, if you truly believe you are 
preservationists, you would be participating in AMIA and attend their events 
because the preservation world in regards to multimedia is changing rapidly. 
Did you know that polyester mag tracks are now threatened? That was last week's 
news at The Reel Thing.) So, if we could discuss a 2016 NMM meeting, I'd love 
to come out and work with you all on a platform where institutional budgets and 
rights holder interests can be debated and a statement of best practices can be 
made.


Best regards,
Dennis Doros
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On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 10:46 AM, Jessica Rosner 
<jessicapros...@gmail.com<mailto:jessicapros...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Alas I won't be at NMM and I doubt Dennis will be either and this brings up 
what I think is the biggest problem when discussing copyright and streaming at 
educational institutions. I see lots of posts here and on colib for webinars, 
sessions, conferences devoted to the issue but only once did I see one which 
actually included a representative of a major\ rights holders. I am happy to be 
corrected as I don't follow every listing but it seems like the same "experts" 
from either universities or people from organizations often hostile to rights 
holders involved. Not my favorite group but has anyone from MPAA ever been 
involved. or from a major studio or company? Dennis and I poke our heads in 
here but without the participation of an intellectual property lawyer it 
strikes me that too much takes place in vacuum with only one view represented

The other huge problem is that the issue of what constitutes "fair use" in 
streaming is totally separate from tracking down the right holder. The plain 
fact is that there tens of thousands of films for which you simply can not 
obtain the streaming rights. There are massive numbers of film that have no 
current US distribution but the all except the small number of PD titles have 
rights holders. Those made outside the US may never have had US distribution , 
others may have in the past but the contract has expired and reverted back to 
someone outside the US. They are difficult but not impossible to track down but 
frankly in the majority of cases they are not interested in making a deal for 
one film for one institution. Its a bitch but it is their right. Likewise a lot 
of American indie films have expired contracts and have pretty much identical 
issues with the foreign films. Even if you find the rights holder there is 
reasonable chance especially with a film older than 10 years that they do not 
own those rights because the were not in the original contract and require 
getting permission and paying multiple parties. Fun stuff.
On the positive side streaming is something most rights holders want to offer 
so they are usually aggressively working on it but there can be all kinds of 
legal, financial and technical issues that they have to clear.
I think librarians need to make a concerted effort to fulfill a streaming 
request but at the same time they also have to accept and get the instructor to 
accept that not every film can be streamed and they might have to consider 
options like a different title or actually having students watch it on a DVD ( 
if you have a legal copy of that)
Librarians and rights holders should absolutely be working together on these 
issues. Clearly if a rights holder has to surmount  costly issues to make a 
film available for streaming then knowing libraries want to purchase it will 
help. I think accessing feature films at least through Hulu, Amazon, Fandor etc 
is honestly more practical in many cases at least for films that played in 
theaters not those made or focused on the educational market
Bottom line educational institutions and rights holders must work together but 
it needs to be broader group of rights holders  and instructors need to 
understand that they can't stream every film they might want.
Jessica

On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 1:45 PM, Sarah E. McCleskey 
<sarah.e.mccles...@hofstra.edu<mailto:sarah.e.mccles...@hofstra.edu>> wrote:
Yes, I agree that a WebEx or another remote conferencing tool would be great. 
Thanks for the feedback so far. I think this is something that we can do.

Sarah

From: 
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[mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu<mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu>]
 On Behalf Of Jodie Borgerding
Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2015 1:20 PM

To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu<mailto:videolib@lists.berkeley.edu>
Subject: Re: [Videolib] Grassroots collaboration Was RE: Copyright question: 
American Playhouse Films

I can’t make it to NMM either but my university has a WebEx license so I would 
be more than happy to “host” a discussion.

Jodie

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[mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Hooper, Lisa K
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Subject: Re: [Videolib] Grassroots collaboration Was RE: Copyright question: 
American Playhouse Films

Yes! I can’t make it to NMM this year but would love to be a part of this 
discussion!
-lisa H.

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[mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of scott spicer
Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2015 12:07 PM
To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu<mailto:videolib@lists.berkeley.edu>
Subject: Re: [Videolib] Grassroots collaboration Was RE: Copyright question: 
American Playhouse Films

I concur, an update to the Summit "5 years on" would be a great idea.  
Unfortunately, there are many like myself who are unable to attend.  If we do 
have this forum, my guidance would be to seek some kind of mechanism for remote 
live participation if at all possible (e.g., Hangout, Skype, WebEx, etc..) for 
at least part of the discussion.
Best,
Scott

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working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication 
between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and 
distributors.

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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 
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