--- Forwarded Message from "Shoaf,Judith P" <[log in to unmask]> --- >From: "Shoaf,Judith P" <[log in to unmask]> >To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum <[log in to unmask]> >Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 12:44:26 -0400 >Subject: RE: #9194 video streaming of films >Thread-Topic: #9194 video streaming of films >Thread-Index: AcoKELhcxB1aO5mRRBW/lMjVlmvCWQADrREA >References: <[log in to unmask]> >In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]> >Accept-Language: en-US >acceptlanguage: en-US 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 *********************************************** LLTI is a service of IALLT, the International Association for Language Learning (http://iallt.org/), and The Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning (http://www.languageconsortium.org/). Join IALLT at http://iallt.org. Subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives at http://listserv.dartmouth.edu/scripts/wa.exe?A0=LLTI Otmar Foelsche, LLTI-Editor ([log in to unmask]) ***********************************************