Fulfillment by Amazon. We were contacted after placing the order, but no
money ever exchanged hands. If we opted not to comply, then the order was
never completed.
Sunshine
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Sunshine J. Carter
Life Sciences Electronic Resources Librarian
University of Minnesota Duluth Library
416 Library
I've noticed a defect in my library's projection screen. When images are
projected onto the screen, there are four small rectangles running vertically
in the middle of the screen which appear much lighter than all other parts of
the screen. These rectangles can also be seen on the screen with
From about 1981 to 2001 my media department routinely recorded news
off-air-not regular broadcasts, but coverage of events like inaugurations,
presidential debates, Democratic and Republican national conventions, state of
the union addresses, as well as special events we considered newsworthy,
I would question the legality and possible copyright infringement on
maintaining videos recorded off of television, even if they were kept
in-house and not circulated outside of the Library. I know from dealing
with PBS in the past, that they have a time-limit on the length of time you
may retain
Guidelines for schools making and keeping off-air recordings (Kastenmeier
guidelines) were pretty limited and limiting, though. I would say the best
argument for keeping them is fair use: the purpose is research/scholarly; they
are news programs and so mostly factual rather than creative;
I would suggest that the reformatting is covered by Section 108.
As far as having/making/keeping the copies at all, I think the main thing is to
consider the social benefit in relation to the potential harm to the copyright
holder or market for the work. Since there really is no market (the
Reminder. U.S. Copyright law section 108 f 3 relates to library recording,
archiving and lending news broadcasts. Permissions are not necessary for
hard and live news; news programs and specials are a different matter.
The main issue may be whether retention and conversion of these recordings
