Looks like we're a chatty bunch today. Let me add, if I might, a hypothetical
for the collective wisdom that is videolib.
Let's say a campus's multicultural concerns committee (or some such entity)
wishes to hold a faculty development session. Said session will be closed,
attended by 20 or
Hi...your making my brain hurt, Susan
A lot of this kind of stuff boils down to risk assessment. If it were me,
I'd show the damn thing and be done with it. It seems to me that your
good-faith efforts are good enough for your particular situation (Save
your paper trail, though)
Gary
Looks
It's a closed educational session, the video is not the focus, the advertising
doesn't highlight that the presentation includes screening the program, and you
have evidence that you thought about the fair use and attempted to purchase a
copy...
I would just use the video.
Hypothetically, of
I would hate for Michael Brewer or Gary to faint, but I would not even ask
for rights. This is one of the few examples I can think of that could be
covered by BOTH fair use and face to face . A bit odd in the sense that
the students are faculty, but either way you slice it, this would be
covered.