--- Forwarded Message from Duncan Charters <[log in to unmask]> --- >Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 16:22:05 -0500 (CDT) >In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]> >To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum <[log in to unmask]> >From: Duncan Charters <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Re: #6221 Digitized French in Action and DESTINOS ------------------ I too have been looking into the issue of digitizing video materials and am not hearing consistent responses, so any further information and advice would be appreciated. At the last IALLT meeting it was mentioned in an early session that Annenberg was charging thousands of dollars for permission to digitize their video series. This was contradicted by a speaker in a later session, who had apparently obtained permission without such a fee. In one discussion, it was suggested that this may depend on how much business one is giving a supplier (in books and ancillary materials). It also seems to depend on whom one contacts within the organization. I was told by one person that they always get such permissions from publishers in writing by fax. One time this person requested some change as their system was being modified. The publisher claimed they had never given permission in the first place. The school had to send a copy of the fax back to the publisher to prove that they had been given the digitizing rights. The publisher apologetically recognized that indeed the rights had been given. I raised this question with the international sales manager of the Spanish publishing house EDELSA at the recent AATSP meeting, since they are beginning to publish DD-ROM and video materials. He was unaware of the issue, so it seems that each company is developing its own practices as they are asked. What does seem standard practice is the following: 1. If rights are given, the digitized materials must be made available only to enrolled students. This would be done either through the use of an intranet with no outside access, or through a password-secured system if students can access the material via ethernet or modem from their dorm or apartment computer. 2. Rights are usually given for specific course use rather than indefinitely for all-university use. This would mean that one can be asked to repeat the request for rights for such digitized use each time a course is offered. At one of the IALLT sessions, a speaker shared a helpful list of publisher contacts for requesting permissions. Are people finding this gets them to the person who is most likely to be helpful and facilitate such permissions? Duncan Charters Principia College Language Department >Hi all! We are in the process of moving from analog to all digital >supplementary materials in our department of modern languages. We are >using DAVID for all audio files and now wish to convert the video series >named above onto CDrom. It seems to me that I read on this very list that >others have done the same...or was I dreaming it? Also, who knows the >copyright laws for converting from one media to another for strictly >classroom use? Thanks fo any help! > >Cheers! >Maria Alvarez