--- Forwarded Message from "David Flores" <[log in to unmask]> --- >Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 16:50:00 -0500 >From: "David Flores" <[log in to unmask]> >To: <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Re: #7715 Watching Videos in the Lab I know that Films for the Humanities & Sciences has separate licensing fees for digital delivery of their stuff. One of the murky areas of copyright law is whether the purchaser of a copyrighted work has the right to "space shift" that work. In other words, do I as pruchaser have the right to copy the material that I have purchased from one medium to another. If I own a VHS tape of a program, am I legally allowed to digitize it and put it on a DVD? The answer to that question is murky, as far as I can tell. Personally, I believe that I should be able to. I should not have to buy new copies of my stuff every time a new video/audio standard comes out. Unfortunately, however, moneyed interests basically own Congress (even moreso these days) and the trend is to restrict the user's rights as much as possible while broadening the restrictions that the copyright holder can place on the use and distribution of the work in question. Don't even get me started on the execrable piece of legislation that was the Sonny Bono Copyright Extension Act. David Flores Director: Language Learning Center Loyola College in Maryland 4501 North Charles Street Baltimore, MD 21210 Ph: (410) 617-5230 Fax: (410) 617 2859 >>> [log in to unmask] 11/16/04 01:08PM >>> --- Forwarded Message from Tom Browne <[log in to unmask]> --- >Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 15:10:14 -0600 >From: Tom Browne <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Watching Videos in the Lab >In-reply-to: <[log in to unmask]> >Originator-info: login-id=browne; server=imap.macalester.edu >Sender: [log in to unmask] >To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum <[log in to unmask]>, LLTI-Editor <[log in to unmask]> >References: <[log in to unmask]> All, I would like to pose a "hypothetical" question to lab people who have video on reserve in their facilities. I know one of the ideas of "Fair Use" is that the copyright holder is not being deprived of any income. If a teacher assigns the students to go to their lab and watch a movie for a class discussion next week, individuals can go to the lab and watch the movie. I think most of us would be willing to agree to providing this service if we had the facilities. Now, lets say, instead of having students check it out and watch it, it was digitized on a secure streaming server with password protection and the original put away. Students can still come in and watch the video for next week$E2s discussion, just in a slightly different way. Has anybody considered doing anything like this, hypothetically, of course? Tom Browne _____________________________ Thomas Goodrich Browne Humanities Resource Center Macalester College [log in to unmask] *********************************************** LLTI is a service of IALLT, the International Association for Language Learning, and The Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning (http://consortium.dartmouth.edu). Join IALLT at http://iallt.org. Otmar Foelsche, LLTI-Editor ([log in to unmask]) ***********************************************