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 I think it did in 2011.
Best wishes,
Laura
Laura Jenemann
Film Studies/Media Services Librarian
Johnson Center Library
George Mason University
4400 University Drive MS 1A6
Fairfax VA, 22030
Phone: 703-993-7593
Email: ljene...@gmu.edu
On 7/25/2013 4:09 PM, Nellie J Chenault wrote:
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 at your library is necessary for access. What is duplicated
within reliable archives? How much of your news archive is local news?
That may be the area where you should put your efforts.
Besides the unreliable YouTube, there are the commercial news archives
(NBC, Vanderbilit, CSpan) as well as the TVNews within the Internet
Archive.
You may be able to contribute some of those recordings to the Internet
Archive
Nell Chenault
VCU Libraries
On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 3:34 PM, Jessica Rosner maddux2...@gmail.com
mailto:maddux2...@gmail.com wrote:
I think you need more information to give an informed answer. Are
you talking about random newscasts taped off air that you now want
to transfer to digital? This would be highly problematic for many
reasons. Are you talking about news programming that you purchased
on VHS that is not available on DVD.
Everyone is assuming this material is not available digitally from
the rights holder but again I would need more information on the
nature of the material to give an informed answer. I think the
biggest problem overall is that almost no one ever mentions that due
diligence would require you to check with the rights holder. They
may say no, they may quote a price you think insanely high or they
might say go ahead but unless you actually ask the rights holder (
and it sounds like you know who they are) you are going to be on
thin ice legally.
On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 1:55 PM, Jeanne Little
jeanne.lit...@uni.edu mailto:jeanne.lit...@uni.edu wrote:
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 a
recorded program from their station for educational use, unless
they held all of the copyright for the program. I would suspect
that stations such as NBC, CBS, etc. would not be amendable to
these titles being taped and retained for public consumption.
Just my two cents...
Jeanne Little
Rod Library
University of Northern Iowa
On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 10:50 AM, Maureen Tripp
maureen_tr...@emerson.edu mailto:maureen_tr...@emerson.edu
wrote:
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, like Saddam Hussein and Dan Rather, and Nixon on
Meet the Press.
These recordings are on VHS. A lot of this material, like
coverage of 9/11, is on youtube. I wonder, though, if it is
worth transferring our vhs material to dvd? Might stuff on
youtube go away at some point?
I also wonder about the ethics of doing this. We would keep
these DVDs for inhouse viewing only.
I’d really appreciate your thoughts—
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