ShalomWill forward this to my son Seth who works for the Electronic Frontier Foundation in San Francisco and deals with such issues and I am sure can definitively answer the questions.
He is right now on his way to Vienna and am sure will answer asap.
Seth please scroll below and see the query and respond to the group thanks dad aka Ken Schoen At 06:34 PM 5/7/2013, Andrea Rapp wrote:
We've had copyright attorneys at past AJL conventions.I am quite sure the answer always is that you can make a copy in a new format a) if your original is no longer usable, but b) that copy is just for preservation purposes. Not sure exactly what that means, except that you cannot make a copy to avoid the need to purchase one in the newer medium. That violates the copyright.That's my recollection, anyway. Andrea --- On Tue, 5/7/13, Chaya Wiesman <[email protected]> wrote: From: Chaya Wiesman <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [ha-Safran] VHSs and cassettesTo: "Etta Gold" <[email protected]>, [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]Date: Tuesday, May 7, 2013, 5:19 PMThese two statements from the replies you received are exactly the opposite of each other. What is the correct information? Keep or discard?I am reformatting the VHS that are needed by our teachers into DVDs but due to copyright law, you MUST keep the original. So we are keeping a lot of the VHS as required.According to âfair useâ in Title 17, copying to DVD is perfectly legal as long as the VHS is then discarded. One replaces the other for purposes of preservation and convenience but not to duplicate.Chaya Wiesman Librarian Ramaz Upper School Library 60 E. 78th Street New York, NY 10075 (212)774-8000 x7329From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Etta GoldSent: Tuesday, May 07, 2013 4:18 PMTo: [email protected]; HaSafran([email protected]) ([email protected]); [email protected]Subject: Re: [ha-Safran] VHSs and cassettesThank you all for your many responses! Just to keep you all informed, I did receive a number of interesting ones:There is equipment sold by library vendors that convert VHS to DVD which is not too expensive. If there are a lot of them to convert to the new format, it might be worth investing. The DVD will only be as good as the VHS. I did this project here several years ago. Some of the tapes had bad tracking and static but most came out well are still being used.According to âfair useâ in Title 17, copying to DVD is perfectly legal as long as the VHS is then discarded. One replaces the other for purposes of preservation and convenience but not to duplicate.I havenât done it yet, but I have been inspired by how some people are using old books to create tables, chairs, archways and art work. Iâm thinking of doing the same with the books, VHS and cassettes that we have. I thought it would be a fun community project.Jewish Prisoners Services International (JPSI) in Seattle used to accept videos with Jewish content. Contact them to see if they still do:<http://jpsi.org/>http://jpsi.org/We created a list and offered them free to our faculty. after they had first choicee (and many were happy to have them), we packed them up and brought them to Goodwill. .we had offered them to so many organizations, - bbut to no avail - no one was interested. We also toyed with converting them to CDâs but too timely, then copyright issuess, etc. I think Goodwill has a very diverse customer base. .nnot all people buy them for personal use. many would buy andd then re-sell .you never know!I am reformatting the VHS that are needed by our teachers into DVDs but due to copyright law, you MUST keep the original. So we are keeping a lot of the VHS as required.To answer your question we are keeping them. For a lot of the iitems the only copy we have is the VHS, so we obviously donât want to get rid of them But we do have a TV with a VCR here in the libraary so people can view them.From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Etta GoldSent: Monday, May 06, 2013 12:53 PMTo: HaSafran ([email protected]) ([email protected]); [email protected]; [email protected]Subject: VHSs and cassettesI know this is an old question, but I must pose it one more time. Please tell me what I should do with the wonderful VHSs and cassettes (books on tape) that I have. It is against everything in me to throw these items in the garbage. What have you all done?Etta Description: Description: Description: TBA_logo_BLK_no_backgrou Etta Gold Library Director The Richard and Janet Yulman Campus 5950 N. Kendall Drive, Pinecrest, FL 33156 305.667.6667 ext. 128 (W) |305.662.8619 (F) [email protected]
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