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I have a few corrections: On Tue, 1 Mar 1994, Mark Williams wrote: > Briefly, copyright law allows NO educational use of videos. There are, The 1976 law doesn't mention videos at all. The Congressional Guidelines were written by a joint House/Senate committee to explain their intent in the vague 1976 law, and the Guidelines are directed to be used in any legal interpretation of use. > loaned, traded, passed on, etc. They must be used within 10 days, then > erased. Not quite. Off-air (note that cable channels are NOT included here) tapes =may= be retained up to 45 days from original broadcast date, but only for evaluation for possible purchase. > Videos purchased by school districts from producers who have created them > specifically for educational use are not subject to such restrictions. Not true at all! ONLY if public performance rights were =specifically= purchased with the tape (and you'd better have that in writing!) may you use the tape for anything other than a fair-use educational display. This isn't intended to be a commercial, but I have a book on school copyright implications to be published later this month. I go into much more detail there. Carol Mann Simpson csimpson@tenet.edu Facilitator - Library Technology 214 882-7450 Mesquite (TX) Independent School District