Re: duplicating TV videos

[Shelley Glantz <sglantz@MASSED.NET>]

At 01:59 PM 4/9/1999 GMT, you wrote:

>Librarians are requesting copies of videos, which they missed videotaping from
>recent television broadcasts, to be made and sent to them by other librarians.
>
>When I received my training about copyright, it cover two areas: duplication
>and presentation. One of the things I thought was a no-no was duplicating for
>distribution copyrighted programs (commercial films and television programing).
>Is this still the case?  Should we be doing this over the listserv, or have I
>misunderstood the interpretation of "fair use" in an educational setting for
>duplicated videos.


      I think that many of the requests have been for things like Cable in
the Classroom programs which are copyright cleared. I myself have done that.
But I do think you are right about copyrighted programs being a no-no. Maybe
some of our copyright gurus could address it.

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Shelley Glantz, Library Media Specialist
Arlington (MA) High School
sglantz@massed.net

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