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>From: "Shoaf,Judith P" <[log in to unmask]>
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>Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 12:44:26 -0400
>Subject: RE: #9194 video streaming of films
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Legally, there are two copyright issues:

(1) Permission to stream. Unless the videos meet very specific criteria (that
they are a required part of a course and are accessible only to course members
and only for a limited time, comparable to face-to-face teaching) you would need
to purchase rights to serve the videos from the rights holders.
See http://librarycopyright.net/etool/
(2) Formatting the videos for streaming. If this requires circumvention of
copy-protection or other encryptions on a DVD, it requires permission even if it
is being done for an online course as described in (1). 

Ain't life grand? So far as I can tell most rights holders are not really
prepared to license streaming anyway. Yet I remember reading a good 10 years ago
about video streaming on a campus (before the laws started defining what one
cannot do).

Judy Shoaf


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