This collection of Maureen's reminds me of older media monitoring
services, like VMS and AIS. They had pretty extensive collections of
television from different markets and some of them dated back a ways. I
always wondered what happened to the collections once VMS went out of
business, which
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
: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu
[mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Windsor, Matthew
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The Sony time shift ruling might cover
Of Windsor, Matthew
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The Sony time shift ruling might cover the works as long as they were not
digitized or publicly shown. The court ruling did state
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
