Re: [Videolib] Veterinary Surgery videos

Not instructional videos, but there are currently a lot of veterinary "reality" TV shows, on National Geographic channels and Animal Planet. They show veterinarians doing surgery, setting bones, getting tar off eagles, castrating yaks, etc. (My husband has become fascinated with them, esp. the

Re: [Videolib] DVD Region Problems

VLC player will play all regions on a computer without switching regions. There was one blip once where this was not true for a month or so, but they fixed it. Using a computer is the best solution because it also skips over the format question (PAL vs. NTSC). Judy, who has a pile of

Re: [Videolib] Gary Handman's Bibliotoons

?Um, I don't think that would qualify under Section 108. There are a number of copies available on Abebooks. Judy From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu on behalf of Randal Sent: Friday, August 5,

Re: [Videolib] Argentine Film Noir

There used to be a good website for Argentinean films, dvdmuseum. It looks like they have migrated to Facebook. You or the professor could correspond with them. https://www.facebook.com/dvdmuseum/ Unfortunately the facebook site seems mostly to feature American blockbusters in translation.

Re: [Videolib] Fair Use Citation Question

I will add to what others have said that versions of this idea were kicking around in the videocassette era. It was hard to find multi-standard VCRs and even though the image degraded if you made the copy across standards, some folks said that you could make the copy if you destroyed the

Re: [Videolib] mashup/copyright Q

Jessica is right; there are only guidelines, not bright lines. I think that makes sense, from a more userly point of view. Even in the GSU case the 10% was not proposed by the judge as an absolute, just a number she would balance with the other factors as being probably safe. But as Jessica

Re: [Videolib] mashup/copyright Q

Jessica noted: "not that it really matters here but pretty sure the judge in the GSU did propose 10% as some absolute max which had the amusing result of upsetting both sides." What she said was that the 10%/1 chapter of a book with more than 10 chapters is a "decidedly small" amount, not a

Re: [Videolib] American Sign Language culture DVD

There's an older film (1996) which was made for TV broadcast, 51 minutes, about a particular Deaf community. It was called The Ragin' Cajun: Usher Syndrome. It was originally part of a series: Oliver Sacks, The Mind Traveler, which looked at a number of different neurological abnormalities.

Re: [Videolib] looking for Land and Freedom

There are legal R2 copies on ebay (released by Artificial Eye) Judy Shoaf VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in

Re: [Videolib] obsolete formats

) which includes educational material sold on cassette is not an obsolete format. If you have personal interviews, research etc on cassette that is a different kettle of fish. On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 11:30 AM, Shoaf,Judith P jsh...@ufl.edumailto:jsh...@ufl.edu wrote: I just checked on Amazon

Re: [Videolib] obsolete formats

I just checked on Amazon and oddly there are tons of brand new cassette players available in a variety of types. Jessica * I think it depends on what was on the tapes. For example, 8-tracks were mostly for commercial material which, if it was preserved, migrated to other formats.

Re: [Videolib] what is a good word for obsolete media?

To me, legacy and heritage are good words because they imply media for which we ought to maintain playback equipment. The other day someone was trying to explain to me about a documentary film-maker who made films-real films, on, you know, film, not video. Conversely, someone corrected an

Re: [Videolib] National Theatre Live productions

Unfortunately these DVDs from the National Theatre do not include the performances from National Theater Live. My impression is that they are insisting that these be seen only in a theatrical setting. One hopes that at some point they will release them. I would love to see Helen Mirren as

Re: [Videolib] Video Production Funding

does not permit. Regards, Bob On Oct 22, 2014, at 11:18 AM, videolib-requ...@lists.berkeley.edumailto:videolib-requ...@lists.berkeley.edu wrote: 3. Re: videolib Digest, Vol 83, Issue 32 (Shoaf,Judith P) From: Shoaf,Judith P jsh...@ufl.edumailto:jsh...@ufl.edu Date: October 22, 2014 11:18:37 AM

Re: [Videolib] another summary of Georgia State appeal

I was reading your analysis and feeling very confused until I remembered that this is a list for VIDEO. For academic books (which the Georgia State case addresses), your comment is just not true: So doesn't it stand to reason that when considering fair use for a work sold primarily to the

Re: [Videolib] videolib Digest, Vol 83, Issue 32

to weigh in from a video perspective? Regards, Bob On Oct 22, 2014, at 8:41 AM, videolib-requ...@lists.berkeley.edumailto:videolib-requ...@lists.berkeley.edu wrote: 2. Re: another summary of Georgia State appeal (Shoaf,Judith P) From: Shoaf,Judith P jsh...@ufl.edumailto:jsh...@ufl.edu Date

Re: [Videolib] Libraries that stream their own titles

I took that MOOC and really enjoyed it a LOT. It sharpened my sense re. a lot of the legal problems, and clarified that one does indeed have to consider situations on a case by case basis. However. At one point I was discussing in the MOOC, with another student, a Particular Situation (I

Re: [Videolib] Textbooks Copyright

Re. the DVD that comes with the textbook and workbook for a language course-I can speak to that specific case because I run a language lab, aka language learning center, foreign language media resource, etc. I think it is reasonable and even important to make available to the students on

Re: [Videolib] Textbooks Copyright

,Judith P [jsh...@ufl.edu] Sent: Monday, February 24, 2014 11:16 AM To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: [Videolib] Textbooks Copyright Re. the DVD that comes with the textbook and workbook for a language course—I can speak to that specific case because I run a language lab, aka language

[Videolib] MOOCs

Nahum is worried about Universities that have online courses for people that just take a one time course (MOOC) and in fact not registered students learning for a degree. It seems to me that these Massively Open Online Courses, which are available to anyone at all, do in fact pose a huge

Re: [Videolib] Paramount ceases releasing movies on film

I know our local “art house” just this past Christmas switched to digital. They had to do a Kickstarter to fund it. Judy From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu [mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Chris Lewis Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2014 2:01 PM To: Videolib

Re: [Videolib] La hora de los hornos

Does anyone know where I can buy this DVD with English subtitles? I see this on amazon but I'm not sure it's the right one with the subtitles: http://www.amazon.com/Hour-Furnaces-hora-hornos-neocolonialismo/dp/B002J5EA3C We have a copy that looks like this one, anyway, except that there is

Re: [Videolib] If a filmmaker had copyright concerns with his/her film asked you to remove it, would you?

This is quite an old situation, from the 90s I think. It doesn't fit your problem very well as this was a college teaching library, not a university research library, and all the interactions were personal. A sociology prof made a film about a local transgender person who was earning money for

Re: [Videolib] Help on licensing contract for streaming rights

These very large courses are called MOOCs, i.e. massively open online courses. The open means that anyone at all can sign up. They are not the kind of regularly scheduled courses for credit that students enrolled at a university take. Now, they are going to evolve, but they do pose a really

Re: [Videolib] Help on licensing contract for streaming rights

I don't know if this helps but passwords at University of Florida involve a unique, secure identifier . If a video was being streamed remotely through the library or another service, the student would sign in with the same authentication used when, for example, viewing courses and grades,

Re: [Videolib] NTSC or PAL

I should add to this that I have never heard of a computer DVD drive locking on a system (PAL/NTSC) the way they lock on regions after a few switches. The ability to play the signal correctly is built is, I thought. Has anyone else heard of this? --Judy -Original Message- I just want

Re: [Videolib] PAL and SECAMq

The original request had to do with VHS cassettes, not DVDs. I think that any computer DVD player will play a PAL DVD. VLC is special because it plays any region. Judy From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu [videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] on

[Videolib] Afro-Brazilian films

Does anyone know if it's possible to get hold of the following films? Something in the Air (Uma Onda No Ar, 2002) dir. Helvecio Ratton De Passagem (Passing By, 2003), dir. Ricardo Elias. Judy Shoaf VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the

Re: [Videolib] captured news video on vhs: worth transferring to dvd?

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;

Re: [Videolib] license question

Criterion Pictures, which handles tons of rights for various theatrical films, http://media2.criterionpic.com/ is not the same as the Criterion Collection http://www.criterion.com/library --the latter is the one which is working with Hulu. Judy -Original Message- From:

Re: [Videolib] more on World Cat

Nahum, I misspoke when I summarized the law. When you sell a copy, your right to control how the buyer disposes of that particular copy is exhausted. However, other rights remain with you. The buyer does *not* get the right to make copies of the DVD, show it in public or on TV, or adapt it

Re: [Videolib] World Cat

Title 17, section 109, of the US Code: Notwithstanding the provisions of section 106 (3), the owner of a particular copy or phonorecord lawfully made under this title, or any person authorized by such owner, is entitled, without the authority of the copyright owner, to sell or otherwise

Re: [Videolib] Permission needed

Re the Criterion collection (Janus): They stream via Hulu. and this may be why they don't offer a separate license. That could actually mean you can assign students to subscribe. The problem is that you probably can't control which films will be available during the term. Judy VIDEOLIB is

Re: [Videolib] What is in a name?! an XLR by any other name sounds just as grounded

There's a smallish teaching media library which grew out of the old Audiovisual dept. which maintained both projectors and films. It was the Film Library, and then the Media Library. Now it has come under the control of Film Studies and they renamed it FMR (that's what's on the door, with no

Re: [Videolib] Is Streaming transformative?

Replying to Jessica: Judge Evans in Georgia State did NOT set a bright line. She said that her rule (10% or less of a book with 10 or fewer chapters, 1 chapter of a book with more chapters) defined a distinctly small, i.e. safe amount. An argument could clearly be made that 12% or 15% was

Re: [Videolib] Is Streaming transformative?

Yikes, I'm a mess. Evans said the distinctly large amount was NOT infringing, because the lack of available licensing for that work weighed in favor of GSU. Judy VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation,

Re: [Videolib] Is Streaming transformative?

Jessica said: As for the 2nd part about using much larger if not entire works if they are not available to be licensed, this is where among others I think the judge went off the deep end and is likely to be struck down on appeal. I agree this is quite a radical argument. She implied that to say

Re: [Videolib] Is Streaming transformative?

Jessica, I believe that the webinar presenter was not relying on the GSU case for the question of streaming an entire video, but on Judge Marshall's opinion in the UCLA case. The defendants argued that streaming the video was time-shifting (as in the Sony Betamax case) of a classroom viewing

Re: [Videolib] Is Streaming transformative?

Thanks, Sheila. This clarifies things for me, especially what the issues are in Point 2. Judy From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu [mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Shelia D Owens (sowens) Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2013 1:22 PM To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu

Re: [Videolib] Is Streaming transformative?

The UCLA case was dismissed, twice. Until some valid plaintiff names a valid defendant (as for example in the Georgia State case, which involved books scanned and put on line), there will be no proper decision about fair use in the case or opportunity to appeal that decision. The second time

Re: [Videolib] Supreme Court ruling in Rule of First Sale

Jessica wrote: I don't believe there will be any change in the US but since most academic publishers make the overwhelming majority of their sales in financial terms in US, Canada, Europe and Australia, I suspect they will either stop selling the lower priced versions in Asia, Africa etc or

Re: [Videolib] Streetcars and trolleys

Isn't there a famous cameo of Hitchcock getting off a bus in a movie? Found it on Youtube, North by Northwest. Judy From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu [mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Nellie J Chenault Sent: Friday, March 15, 2013 1:35 PM To:

Re: [Videolib] UCLA has announced NewsScape an online archive of newscasts since 2005 from around the world

. Are newscasts somehow less protected than other copyrighted works? Neither the UCLA or Internet Archive site say anything about agreements with the news networks. Chris Lewis *** Yes, newscasts are less protected than other copyrighted works. Creative works have more protection

Re: [Videolib] A Distributor's Response

The most interesting aspect of this is of course that the authors of the articles in these journals make nothing from sales of the journals. The university pays the prof. to do the research and write the article. The university promotes the prof. on the basis of the article, and raises his pay.

Re: [Videolib] PPR/1st sale/Sec. 108 (Was: Emails like this)

Cf. the law: § 110 · Limitations on exclusive rights: Exemption of certain performances and displays Notwithstanding the provisions of section 106, the following are not infringements of copyright: (1) performance or display of a work by instructors or pupils in the course of

[Videolib] FW: query re LWT series, The Great Depression

I saw this query on another list and thought that Videolib might have a clue about the answer. Judy Shoaf Dear Colleagues: Would anyone have information on how I might obtain a copy of the following documentary series? Title: The Great Depression Episodes: 1. 'America: The Hoover Years'; 2.

Re: [Videolib] Viktor und Viktoria

Some years ago I was keen on Conrad Veidt and Anton Walbrook and collected what I could find of their early stuff via ebay (my personal foray into the realm of dubious copies). Walbrook is in Viktor und Viktoria and my VHS copy is as Jessica described--very casually labeled, and I remember it

Re: [Videolib] Change of format

Farhad, Recent decisions (Hathi Trust, Georgia) imply that digitizing texts is not a special form of copying (though neither of these decisions remotely allows for streaming entire movies to students, by any stretch). The DMCA (chapter 12 of Title 17) however makes it an infringement to

Re: [Videolib] Trimming the cruft

Rick said: Now, if we could also FIRST quote the text to which we are going to respond..., and then SECOND respond to the quoted text, meaning that your response will be *AFTER* the quoted text (the text to which you are responding) I moderate several tech lists and I don't put up with

Re: [Videolib] Impact of GSU

In the 47 cases Judge Evans evaluated for possible Fair Use, she found 13 excerpts which were longer than her distinctly small criteria, but in only 5 of these cases did she find in favor of the plaintiffs. Basically, because the kind of use (educational, non-commercial) weighs strongly in

Re: [Videolib] Americas - Annenberg/PBS series

Did you try learner.org or 1-800-learner? That's Annenberg and they may be able to sell copies. Judy Shoaf From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu [mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Deborah Benrubi Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2012 3:14 PM To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu

[Videolib] Online copyright tools

There used to be several tools for evaluating public domain and other legal situations with respect to specific media items at http://librarycopyright.net/ But today I find that site (and other sites which purport to have these tools) are marked with red warning signs that they are dangerous

Re: [Videolib] Online copyright tools

the site up and running byJune 1, 2012. We apologize for this inconvenience. No red warnings, etc. that I could see. Jeanne Little On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 9:30 AM, Shoaf,Judith P jsh...@ufl.edumailto:jsh...@ufl.edu wrote: There used to be several tools for evaluating public domain and other legal

Re: [Videolib] Permissible amounts in fair use

-206-5392tel:310-206-5392 rbr...@oid.ucla.edumailto:rbr...@oid.ucla.edu From: Shoaf,Judith P jsh...@ufl.edumailto:jsh...@ufl.edu Reply-To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edumailto:videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Date: Tuesday, May 15, 2012 12:42 PM To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edumailto:videolib

Re: [Videolib] Permissible amounts in fair use

It's worth noting that Judge Evans actually emphasized that it is legitimate to excerpt an entire chapter (even a chapter written by a different author from the rest of the book) in order to provide students with a context for the material to be discussed. That is, she justified including MORE

Re: [Videolib] Permissible amounts in fair use

with that? On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Shoaf,Judith P jsh...@ufl.edumailto:jsh...@ufl.edu wrote: It's worth noting that Judge Evans actually emphasized that it is legitimate to excerpt an entire chapter (even a chapter written by a different author from the rest of the book) in order to provide students

Re: [Videolib] Permissible amounts in fair use

I once took that personality test online and it said I am most like Lucy in Peanuts. My husband, who is most like Schroeder, doesn’t let me forget it. Nickels welcome. Judge Evans talks about the Kinko’s and Michigan Documents cases, and disagrees about the “good parts” argument. In only one

Re: [Videolib] streaming rights for Truffaut's Shoot the Piano Player?

It is currently available, along with a lot of Criterion films, on Hulu Plus. I sent a general inquiry about streaming to Jon Mulvaney of Criterion mulva...@criterion.com and he replied by referring me to Hulu Plus: Institutional streaming licenses are not available at this time. I do hope

Re: [Videolib] Procedure question: Do you have a hold queue for situations when multiple students need to watch a given title before a class? If so, how does it work?

I had an idea which however I never put into action. That was to establish a Twitter account and have the lab assistant post to it when an in-demand item became available. Those who were in a class with a reserve item could follow the tweets on days when the item was due Judy

Re: [Videolib] Canadian PPR vs. U.S. PPR income

Maybe the question could be solved by looking at budgets. How much is budgeted for Canadian schools of all kinds to purchase the right to perform films for students? Presumably this is a separate item from the budget for buying films, with or without PPR. There is a central clearing-house for

Re: [Videolib] (was) Looking for The Red and the Black - region 1 dvds

Note: Region 1 is US and Canada. A Region 1 DVD in French with no English subtitles probably was issued in Canada for francophones there. Canadian French-language releases often do have English (and sometimes also French) subtitles, so this is a good source for the US. You can use amazon.ca or

[Videolib] Digital reserves/course packets

I think Jessica, who loves to ask rhetorically would you think it's OK to digitize a BOOK and put it online?, mentioned the Kinko's case, which involved, precisely, copying most or all of many articles and books (I once made up a course packet which included an entire out of print but in

Re: [Videolib] Looking for Bahia: Africa in the Americas

I got a copy in 2007 from Michael Brewer at mbrew...@aol.commailto:mbrew...@aol.com Brewer Media Associates 6206 Maryland Drive Los Angeles, CA 90048 Isn't he on Videolib? Judy Shoaf ___ Hi All, We have a VHS copy of Bahia: Africa in the Americas but we'd like to upgrade to a DVD.

Re: [Videolib] Film studies inc.

The sad thing is that you can feed a Shakespeare sonnet or a Hemingway novel into the same claptrap machine and it will reach exactly the same conclusions as if you feed it any film from Godard to John Hughes. The machine was originally designed to chew up anything branded as literature and

Re: [Videolib] Film studies inc.

jump up and yell BULL$#!@!!! It works really well when the Dean is there you have tenure. ;) Randal Baier Sent from my Verizon Wireless Phone - Reply message - From: Shoaf,Judith P jsh...@ufl.edu To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Subject: [Videolib] Film studies

Re: [Videolib] you know things are messed up when librarians start marching

Or maybe that they tend to look at all sides of a question, try to be fair to all sides in a dispute, think rather than shout? Judy Ummm...this would sort of imply that librarians are generally pathetic schmeeps who require the sky to fall in order to take action. gary

Re: [Videolib] you know things are messed up when librarians start marching

Which is I think the point of the sign. But the cautious are not pathetic schmeeps, IMHO. They are cautious. Judy -Original Message- From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu [mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of ghand...@library.berkeley.edu Sent: Friday, October

Re: [Videolib] videolib Digest, Vol 47, Issue 32

I did. Judy Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: ghand...@library.berkeley.edu Sender: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2011 13:55:13 To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Reply-To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: [Videolib] videolib

Re: [Videolib] Case dismissed against UCLA!

the rights holder who is independent filmmaker does not have the resources to sue UCLA. Does that make it right? Sadly bad cases make bad law and this case resolves virtually nothing in terms of copyright, streaming and educational institutions. On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Shoaf,Judith P

Re: [Videolib] region-free players-shhhhh

In the 2003 rulemaking of the Librarian of Congress, http://www.copyright.gov/1201/docs/registers-recommendation.pdf the comment was that It is uncontested that merely watching a lawfully obtained copy of a non-region 1 DVD is a noninfringing use BUT Persons with multi-region players are able to

Re: [Videolib] PayPal

Actually, I always prefer to use the bank account but I also have to take an extra step. What they want me to do is to open a Paypal credit card and use that. For months I had to specifically change the default, which was apply now for your Paypal credit line! Now the default is to pay with

Re: [Videolib] Streaming rights for Battle of Algiers?

The Battle of Algiers is available at Hulu as a subscription item ($8/month, 1-week free trial) http://www.hulu.com/watch/215862/the-battle-of-algiers Hulu is streaming a lot of the Criterion collection. This is not what you want but good to know as a backup. Judy Shoaf

[Videolib] Hulu plus

Regular (free) Hulu has commercials, usually timed to the commercial breaks in TV shows. They used to be quite short and they are still shorter interruptions than on TV, but it does get tedious. There is a little timer in the corner that tells you how many commercials you will be watching and

Re: [Videolib] chinese films

Yes asia has copies of items that are sort of what you are looking for http://www.yesasia.com/us/hutongs-courtyard-folk-life-dvd-english-subtitled-china-version/1011391115-0-0-0-en/info.html --listed as Hutongs, courtyard family life. 4 dvds, PAL all region.

Re: [Videolib] The new Placido Bono Act...

Well, since he probably plans to sing until he's 100, I suppose that if anyone has the right to applaud this he does Judy From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu [mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Dennis Doros Sent: Monday, September 12, 2011 12:55 PM To: Video

Re: [Videolib] L'inhumaine, one more time

file on the web (please see: L'Inhumaine English Titles.srt (14944bytes) show preview) http://www.opensubtitles.org/en/subtitles/3410335/inhumaine-l-en Best Peter http://www.zlb.de/wissensgebiete/kunst_buehne_medien/videos http://dvdbiblog.wordpress.com/ Shoaf,Judith P schrieb: I just wanted

[Videolib] L'inhumaine, one more time

I just wanted to update anyone who actually cares about this film in its various incarnations. The copy the French prof here owns is a SECAM VHS, purchased she says in the mid-1980s, and indubitably a legal copy. It was issued in a series called 'Les films de ma vie curated by Claude Berri and

Re: [Videolib] L'Inhumaine

I have thought about the ins and outs of treating the item as public domain though I didn't think of section 108 because I'm just a language lab, not a library. The first 1/2 hour is in fact available online; last night I watched about 15 minutes of it and found that viewing it in a small

Re: [Videolib] L'Inhumaine

Thanks for the suggestions. I think she already thought about what to substitute (a problem because it's the first week of class) but some students were still interested in viewing L'Inhumaine, which they can do on their own using the instructor's copy. Prix de Beauté sounds perfect-that may be

[Videolib] L'Inhumaine

A professor here wanted to show this 1924 film to her class but found that the library VHS copy had gone missing. She has a copy herself, but it's French (Secam, presumably) with French title cards, so only the French majors can enjoy it and then only in the lab, where we have a secam player.

Re: [Videolib] Zevida ordered shut down

Zediva was an interesting idea, anyway. As I recall , Zediva was focusing on a market for streamed video of DVDs that had just been released, before the other streaming services were allowed to offer them. It stands to reason that it would be effectively attacked because it was stepping on a

Re: [Videolib] Our new book on fair use

Jessica, you say ... a Harvard student and open access activists who stole tens of thousands of articles from JSTOR ( never heard of it before myself) a subscription service for academic papers because he felt they were too expensive. I certainly don't know the position of you or Mr. Jaszi,

Re: [Videolib] Free Streaming Media Seminar Series! 2011 Member Drive

I just checked and they seem to have a category of free membership. But I guess, from the below, that they want full individual memberships at $60 as the minimum. Judy -Original Message- From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu [mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf

Re: [Videolib] Another legal case worth comment? IDA Amicus Brief

I am incredulous. Educational work and reporting are not tax-deductible because not for profit--by definition? Judy From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu [videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] on behalf of Carleton L. Jackson [carle...@umd.edu] Sent:

Re: [Videolib] UCLA case

Jessica--you do rant a lot and I have poked some irritants in your direction recently, but I wanted to add that I'm glad you are on the list and always ready with information, case studies, and valiant defense of the rights owners. I have understood the situation so much more fully from reading

Re: [Videolib] UCLA Case

Randal--well, you asked me a question and then sort of gave the answer I would give. I am not dealing with this kind of situation myself, so whether I am OK with a 50 sec. clip is not relevant. It looks, though, as if the librarians have given it some thought and believe the 50 sec. clip is

Re: [Videolib] UCLA Case

Thanks, Anthony, for the article about UCLA's Mexican music collection. Re consistent policies... There is a difference between making copyrighted materials available to enrolled students in a password-protected site (which is the film streaming situation) and putting copyrighted material on

Re: [Videolib] UCLA Case

I'm curious about one detail: does anybody know how many films are being streamed in their entirety at UCLA? And the breakdown between theatrical and documentary/educational numbers? And average class size? Of course if they are constantly putting items up and then taking them down it would be

Re: [Videolib] UCLA Case

Jessica said: For the record not only did UCLA stream titles they had no right to , they also used crappy copies in many cases. They could not even be bothered to buy a recent DVD so they streamed 20 plus year old videos. I am sure they looked like utter crap but given the rest of their

Re: [Videolib] NY Times article on movies as a shared experience

My husband and I have been attending the live Met operas in HD at the multiplex. After a couple of very crowded sessions with people crammed into 1 mini-theater they now open 2 of them on Saturday afternoons, and there are Xeroxed program notes and a general sense of welcome. Most of those

Re: [Videolib] NY Times article on movies as a shared experience

Oh, it is my favorite, too. I discovered it on the Disney channel in the mid-80s, I think, and though I haven't re-watched it for a couple of years I could still repeat some of the dialogue. The thing to do of course is not so much to see it on the big screen but go to Mull, as Nancy Franklin

Re: [Videolib] NY Times article on movies as a shared experience

The other day we were having trouble locating our copy of The 400 Blows and the student discovered in online. I saw her later watching it on her laptop. The widescreen was I guess about 8 inches wide. I had such a vivid memory of Antoine's giant face on the screen, the simple fact that this

Re: [Videolib] What gets streamed...what gets used

I am not sure whether I should butt in because I'm not a real librarian. But as a library user I think there is something to be said for having movies related to movies used in the classroom available. Not everything in higher education involves a one-on-one correspondence between required or

Re: [Videolib] Today's puzzler

I just looked at the Battle of Algiers DVD and the Gillo Pontecorvo doc (The Dictatorship of Truth) they have is from 1992, with Edward Said. http://www.criterion.com/films/248-the-battle-of-algiers Judy -Original Message- From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu

Re: [Videolib] Happy Friday!

Well, you could always note that if any of the set phrases in the Statement Generator turn up in the student's analysis of a film, that's an automatic half-grade off. --Judy From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu [mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Jessica Rosner

Re: [Videolib] Happy Friday!

phrases show up in the normal course of film students and film studies gobbledygook without the assistance of the statement generator. On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Shoaf,Judith P jsh...@ufl.edumailto:jsh...@ufl.edu wrote: Well, you could always note that if any of the set phrases in the Statement

Re: [Videolib] Happy Friday!

But, Jessica, you'll be relieved to know that not all movies are about the male gaze: Peeping Tom subjugates the plight of the migrant worker in post-war America through its use of mise-en-scene. I assume that someone excerpted phrases and generated sentences on the modeel Preposition x, film

Re: [Videolib] Help with locating Spanish language films

Your 2 movies were not at this site, but it is one I have used successfully esp. for movies from Argentina. http://www.dvdmuseum.com.ar/ --so it is a possible vendor. Not all films are subtitled but they do tell you what the story is on that and region. Judy From:

Re: [Videolib] Educational PPR

I don't know-- it lists a lot of institutions but it insists that this has to be a classroom setting for matriculated students in the institution. Not that many galleries or community centers matriculate students or show films in a classroom setting. ??? Judy -Original Message- From:

Re: [Videolib] Another DMCA question

Yes, by fair use. The broad definition of the last rulemaking says the professor can rip an encoded DVD if the purpose is educational. Judy From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu [mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Ball, James (jmb4aw) Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2011

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