No, No, No and NO!!! Well, it seemed like a good idea at the time.
Here are some responses:
Libraries can make technology transfers under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act
when the equipment to play the medium is "obsolete."
"Obsolete" is when the equipment is no longer available in the marketplace.
Since you can still purchase a VHS player, VHS videos aren't available for transfer
just yet. It will be soon, but not quite yet.
I have told my teachers and the other media specialist in our district agree that
it breaks copyright to transform vhs to dvd. If I couldn't find one in dvd format
and the vhs tape was degrading to the point it might not play again I would
consider copying that particular video. Melinda Wright
No! That is making a derivative copy. Fair use does not give us the right to change
the format of the original at all. Terri L. Street
If the media is available in DVD form you must PURCHASE it that way.
If it is not available in DVD format then yes, you may. - Karen DeFrank
You are changing the format so that is a violation of copyright. Are the titles
available on DVD for purchase? - Nancy LeCrone
Changing formats is not permitted under copyright law. I use Carol Simpson's
Copyright Catechism as my resource and "bible" for these things.
I strongly suggest it to anyone I talk to about Copyright. Julia J Benincosa
Julie Radtke
Whitefish High School library
406-862-8600 x 456
radtkej@wfps.k12.mt.us
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