Hi,
Well it may be the holiday season- but I'm sorry I can't go along with what you are
doing. We do need to set ourselves to a higher level. When I was at the elementary
level, I did show videos that went with an area of the curriculum or author or
title of something that I had done lessons on. Not just pulling a holiday video and
playing it for the school as a fun time. It took me several years to get my present
school and principal sort of on the right path. I could not set an example that I
feel in inappropriate. My staff, principal and even the PTA come to me with
copyright questions and most of the staff are trying to follow the guidelines for
education, not all my staff, but you should see their faces when I walk into a room
and they are showing a video for a reward or fun. Every fall at the first staff
meeting I go over copyright print and nonprint. I reinforce it several more times
during the year. I am not the copyright police, but they know the laws and if they
choose!
to break them, I am covered. If by some chance a parent becomes irrate about
their student using educaional time or if they don't approve of the video a teacher
may be showing, and this does happen (that a parent calls and reports copyright
abuse), I can prove that I have taken the neccessary steps for informing the staff
about the laws. I know that I have carried on, but I do feel strongly about this
issue.
I hope that you change your mind about doing this and convince the principal that
this practice should stop and that you will not be part of it.
--
Bettina Brander
Library Media Specialist
Otto Middle School
Lansing, Mi 48906
tbrander@comcast.net
--
Bettina Brander
Library Media Specialist
Otto Middle School
Lansing, Mi 48906
tbrander@comcast.net
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From: "Hastings, Jeff" <HASTINGJ@HOWELLSCHOOLS.COM>
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> Colleagues:
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> It's the last day before winter break and I'll be spending it in
> traditional fashion: acting as an accessory to a federal crime.
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>
> Yes, friends, nothing imparts that holiday glow quite like the teeny
> thrill of naughtiness and the lingering sense of guilt that comes with
> being part of a willful breach of copyright guidelines.
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> Bust out the eggnog and pass the DVDs!
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> Oh, come now You know what I'm talking about: The holiday film festival.
> Isn't it pretty much de rigueur in every school on that last day before
> break? I know I've been asked to do it every year since entering the
> profession and, though I always, gently, point out that it's actually
> naughty, not nice, to bend copyright law, teachers and administrators
> alike always simply nudge me toward the play button with a wink and a
> nod.
>
>
> Ah well, it's for the kids...
>
> This year's line up is pretty hot, too: Our library will be hosting a
> gathering of about a hundred kids who'll grab some popcorn and get cozy
> in our Kiva area (I installed a dedicated presentation system complete
> with gut-rumbling cinema sound a few years back) and be treated to a big
> screen showing of "Christmas with the Kranks." By bypassing any pesky
> admission or rental fees, we'll be stealing bread off the tables of Tim
> Allen, Jamie Lee Curtis and the hundreds of other artists and
> tradespeople responsible for the production and distribution of the
> show.
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> But that's not all:
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> For those who can't make it down to the library, I'll be pumping out
> "Madagascar" on our schools in-house TV distribution system. You heard
> me right! The just-released on DVD blockbuster will be available in
> every classroom in the house!
>
> Now that I've shared my dirty little secret, tell me yours. Does your
> school system do this too? Are you and I part of what is perhaps the
> most overlooked mass act of civil disobedience in the nation? Are you
> doing it right now? Do you feel badly about it or do you kinda like it?
> Do you ever bring the nasty realities of the matter up to faculty and
> administration? Do any of you work in a district that has actually taken
> steps to arrest this sort of practice?
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>
> Tell me about it. I wanna know. And, if you tell me, I promise, I'll
> write you right back. The library's pretty much closed anyway.
>
> We're watching movies!!!
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> Happy Holidays!
>
> Jeffrey Hastings
> School Librarian, possible Federal Felon,
> Highlander Way Middle School
> Howell, Michigan
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