Re: [Videolib] PAL DVD

2010-01-12 Thread Shoaf,Judith P
A code-free (region-free) DVD player does the conversion to NTSC...the projector doesn't do anything except project the converted signal... Gary SOME region-free DVD players do the conversion. Some don't. --Judy VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues

Re: [Videolib] Textbooks on reserve?

2010-01-15 Thread Shoaf,Judith P
that textbooks are considered not permanent materials compare to regular books. I was wondering if this is correct and if so, does it violate copyright law? Farhad From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu [videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Shoaf,Judith P [jsh

Re: [Videolib] Textbooks on reserve?

2010-01-15 Thread Shoaf,Judith P
Usually the consumable pages of the book (lab manual, workbook, SAM =Student Activities Manual) are separate volumes, on cheap paper, and indeed have to be purchased by each student--at least for language textbooks. Unless the instructor would accept a Xerox, the library copy would be no good.

Re: [Videolib] [Fwd: FW: quick response....]

2010-01-29 Thread Shoaf,Judith P
I would say no. Relevant questions are: Is Dr. Fellini a Film Studies professor? Who owns the DVDs? Are any of the DVDs copy-protected? The right to circumvent copy-protection to make clips for FACE TO FACE classroom use is accorded only to Film and Media profs using DVDs purchased by their

Re: [Videolib] Statement on video streaming

2010-02-22 Thread Shoaf,Judith P
I say: This is true only to an extent. If a DVD is encrypted, the user can use the video version of the title (if available), and digitize it for the classroom stream. In addition, if the DVD is encrypted, screen capture software could be used (although the quality would suffer) which the

Re: [Videolib] Digital Streaming

2010-02-24 Thread Shoaf,Judith P
YIKES! My husband just had an appendectomy Sunday so I am only getting to this now. I can hardly believe it. Mostly because I have a lot of trouble downloading RealPlayer on both office and work computers so I don't have the latest version. But for a decade we have been using RealMedia

Re: [Videolib] A question of ideal running time for an educational film

2010-02-28 Thread Shoaf,Judith P
Our classes (University of Florida) vary--the regulation class period is 50 minutes, but if a class is scheduled Tues-Thurs it has one double period. The instructor does not have a lot of control over the scheduling. So 45-50 min would be ideal. Judy Shoaf VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the

Re: [Videolib] The Couple in the Cage: Guatianaui Odyssey

2010-03-12 Thread Shoaf,Judith P
They might give you a discount since you had previously purchased the VHS (which probably had a similar price). Judy Shoaf Our VHS of The Couple in the Cage: Guatianaui Odyssey was damaged beyond repair and a professor is asking for another copy. The only

[Videolib] Library checkout software

2010-03-17 Thread Shoaf,Judith P
For my language lab, I use Small Library Organizer + a barcode scanner to manage our small media collection, and it works OK. The actual media library for the College is stuck right now with a DOS-based database system dating back to around 1991 for checkout. It does not allow much searching

Re: [Videolib] Library checkout software

2010-03-17 Thread Shoaf,Judith P
I forgot to add that the Media Library, which is used mostly by Film Studies but sometimes by other depts., has about 8000 items and a borrower database of a few hundred people at most. What they need is a software that allows them to book as well as check out media. Judy Shoaf VIDEOLIB is

Re: [Videolib] campus support for VHS

2010-04-01 Thread Shoaf,Judith P
Hmm--so it is going to be easier to convert 5000 VHS tapes to DVD than to keep VHS players in working order? What will the resulting DVDs be like? I suspect that digitizing and constructing a useful and reliable DVD will be more expensive than buying a commercial one. I recall a thread (this

Re: [Videolib] Dancing created by Rhonda Grauer

2010-05-26 Thread Shoaf,Judith P
I found this segment of Dancing plus one other listed on the website of Middlemarch Films. They don't seem to sell their own stuff but maybe they could tell you if that show was issued on a separate DVD (or perhaps the two shows they list) and where to buy it).

Re: [Videolib] Is an educational use a transformative use.

2010-06-24 Thread Shoaf,Judith P
Larry wrote: I'd like the list to answer a simple question: does your institution consider any educational use of copyrighted material, in whole or in part, ipso facto a transformative use and therefore a fair use? This seems like goofy rhetoric to me. Or am I way off base? Fair use involves

Re: [Videolib] Is an educational use a transformative use.

2010-06-24 Thread Shoaf,Judith P
Thanks, Gary. Actually these points are what I was getting at, but you are much clearer. I wasn't attacking Larry's rhetoric but the rhetoric he was criticizing. And it seems clear that transformative is defined in law precisely the to exclude producing an exact copy in a different format.

Re: [Videolib] New copyright rules re: DMCA exemptions are finallyannounced

2010-07-26 Thread Shoaf,Judith P
I notice also that the restriction on the ownership of the DVDs in question has gone away, which is marvelous. Doesn't the wording imply that the exception is for circumventing access controls precisely in cases where fair use would normally apply? I.e., short clips of the sort one could use

Re: [Videolib] audio transcription software

2010-08-12 Thread Shoaf,Judith P
My husband has been using Dragon Naturally Speaking for years, to save his wrists. (Interestingly, I can tell when I am reading something he wrote using it--there is a relaxed wordiness his typed prose does not have!) It is a good product but it is designed for intensive use by a single voice,

Re: [Videolib] La Chanson de Roland

2010-08-27 Thread Shoaf,Judith P
Here's a detailed description of the Carol Media version. It's PAL and no subtitles. It is apparently available on amazon.de. http://library.colgate.edu/record=b3177235 The advantage of the German over the French one is that, although both are PAL, the German version is all region while the

Re: [Videolib] Looking for Video Conversion and YouTube Guidelines

2010-09-08 Thread Shoaf,Judith P
Gary, the Kastenmeier guidelines for using material taped off-air (by institutions) involve showing it once and erasing the program after 45 days. http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/Kastenmeier.html Jonathan says Many faculty members have off-air recordings on video tape ... That means they taped

[Videolib] W.W.H.L. D.?

2010-09-08 Thread Shoaf,Judith P
What Would Henri Langlois Do? I don't ask myself Judy 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 libraries and related

Re: [Videolib] Looking for Video Conversion and YouTube Guidelines

2010-09-08 Thread Shoaf,Judith P
Randal, What you describe is what we are referring to as the Kastenmeier guidelines. They were laid down by, I think, a congressional committee, working to some extent with media producers, esp. those who were hoping for a good market in school libraries for their educational series. --Judy

[Videolib] Congress and PPR

2010-09-22 Thread Shoaf,Judith P
Shouldn't do this, but-- I was just passing an odd moment reading the Onion online and realized that only VideoLib members could understand the irony in this article: http://www.theonion.com/articles/congress-appropriates-317-to-rent-tango-cash,18097/ Judy Judith P. Shoaf Director, Language

Re: [Videolib] Streaming Video

2010-09-22 Thread Shoaf,Judith P
I really like this philosophy. As a user of journals, it makes sense to me. Also thanks for highlights of the advantages of the streamed video. Judy -Original Message- Another point about large collections, is the long tail. This is a concept usually discussed in the context of

Re: [Videolib] Question about streaming rights

2010-09-29 Thread Shoaf,Judith P
I know there is one prof here who actually writes about the supplements provided to various editions of medieval films--what is considered necessary and appropriate in presenting what is often yet another collector's edition or director's cut of a film which has already been released

[Videolib] Preservation vs. prohibitions on duplication

2010-09-30 Thread Shoaf,Judith P
I thought this was interesting, focusing on audio recordings and the preservation vs. copyright situation. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_endangered_digital_recordings judy Judith P. Shoaf Director, Language Learning Center University of Florida PO 117300 Gainesville, Florida 32611 352-392-2112

Re: [Videolib] breathing like a Bernini stone

2010-09-30 Thread Shoaf,Judith P
Jessica--I was thinking something of the same thing. I remember seeing it in the theater with all those amazing sweeping beaches and all, and feeling it was mighty empty. It was kind of like an ad for itself. Now, I have only seen Lawrence of Arabia and Bridge on the River Kwai on TV, but they

Re: [Videolib] PAL permissions question

2010-10-29 Thread Shoaf,Judith P
Actually, speaking as director of a FL Tech Center, I have for a long time told people that this is NOT something that should be done without permission (dating back to the good old VHS days, where you needed an expensive player for the foreign standard). The quality of PAL is so much better

Re: [Videolib] Community Question

2010-11-10 Thread Shoaf,Judith P
I think what happened is that the p-word, the one that rhymes with the first syllable of morning, got picked up by the filters and the posts are therefore tagged as spam. It's true that sometimes perfectly good discussions get tagged this way. Maybe other members can check their junk or

Re: [Videolib] Streaming within a password protected course management system

2010-11-11 Thread Shoaf,Judith P
I think the catch is if it's for distance ed--if the course management system is just part of a delivery system for course materials in a course that also has classroom components, the film should be shown in a face-to-face session. The exceptions allowed for distance ed are for courses taught

Re: [Videolib] Streaming within a password protected course management system

2010-11-12 Thread Shoaf,Judith P
Dennis said: And my feelings when UCLA includes in this release, foreign-language films for linguistic and foreign-language courses as permissible is something I object to in several different ways. 3) They're implying that only foreign language films have a role in education and/or that

Re: [Videolib] Streaming within a password protected course management system

2010-12-02 Thread Shoaf,Judith P
Can someone explain to me the difference in the effect on the copyright holder between having an instructor show a film in class and time shifting the viewing of that film outside of class through streaming technology to the same students? Mb As an educator, I am on the side of the streaming

Re: [Videolib] For your Christmas pleasure

2010-12-21 Thread Shoaf,Judith P
Did you realize there is a film soon to be released? http://www.rareexportsmovie.com/en Judy From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu [videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Dennis Doros [milefi...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, December 20, 2010 7:54 PM

Re: [Videolib] [Videonews] Here we go again...

2011-01-03 Thread Shoaf,Judith P
That site Scott indicated looks interesting. However, I have a basic question. Isn't it illegal to make a special price for one group of customers? As I recall, the institutional price does not in fact always include PPR. Individual purchases disk for reasonable price but waives legal right to

Re: [Videolib] ***SPAM*** Re: Account Verification

2011-01-12 Thread Shoaf,Judith P
Note well that ANY email purporting to come from ANYONE that asks for your password to ANYTHING is an attempt to steal your identity. Do not reply to such an email. Judy -Original Message- From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu [mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On

Re: [Videolib] Films set in Venice

2011-01-21 Thread Shoaf,Judith P
Don't look now Episode of Brideshead Revisited Judy From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu [mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Ball, James (jmb4aw) Sent: Friday, January 21, 2011 9:11 AM To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu Subject: [Videolib] Films set in Venice I'll kick

Re: [Videolib] DCMA exemption question

2011-01-25 Thread Shoaf,Judith P
Isn't there another aspect of TEACH that is relevant-that is, that it speaks only of distance education courses and not of regular courses that meet in the classroom? The course management system for these 2 types of class might be identical, but I think TEACH addresses only the distance ed,

Re: [Videolib] Another DMCA question

2011-01-27 Thread Shoaf,Judith P
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

Re: [Videolib] Help with locating Spanish language films

2011-02-03 Thread Shoaf,Judith P
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

2011-02-03 Thread Shoaf,Judith P
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] Happy Friday!

2011-02-04 Thread Shoaf,Judith P
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] Happy Friday!

2011-02-07 Thread Shoaf,Judith P
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!

2011-02-07 Thread Shoaf,Judith P
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] Today's puzzler

2011-02-22 Thread Shoaf,Judith P
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] What gets streamed...what gets used

2011-02-23 Thread Shoaf,Judith P
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] NY Times article on movies as a shared experience

2011-04-10 Thread Shoaf,Judith P
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] NY Times article on movies as a shared experience

2011-04-11 Thread Shoaf,Judith P
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

2011-04-11 Thread Shoaf,Judith P
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] UCLA Case

2011-05-26 Thread Shoaf,Judith P
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] UCLA Case

2011-05-31 Thread Shoaf,Judith P
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

2011-06-01 Thread Shoaf,Judith P
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

2011-06-02 Thread Shoaf,Judith P
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

2011-06-02 Thread Shoaf,Judith P
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] Another legal case worth comment? IDA Amicus Brief

2011-06-10 Thread Shoaf,Judith P
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] Free Streaming Media Seminar Series! 2011 Member Drive

2011-07-07 Thread Shoaf,Judith P
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] Our new book on fair use

2011-07-27 Thread Shoaf,Judith P
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] Zevida ordered shut down

2011-08-04 Thread Shoaf,Judith P
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

[Videolib] L'Inhumaine

2011-08-22 Thread Shoaf,Judith P
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] L'Inhumaine

2011-08-23 Thread Shoaf,Judith P
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

2011-08-23 Thread Shoaf,Judith P
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, one more time

2011-09-01 Thread Shoaf,Judith P
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, one more time

2011-09-03 Thread Shoaf,Judith P
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

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

2011-09-12 Thread Shoaf,Judith P
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] chinese films

2011-09-14 Thread Shoaf,Judith P
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] Streaming rights for Battle of Algiers?

2011-09-29 Thread Shoaf,Judith P
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

2011-09-29 Thread Shoaf,Judith P
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] region-free players-shhhhh

2011-10-03 Thread Shoaf,Judith P
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

2011-10-03 Thread Shoaf,Judith P
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] Case dismissed against UCLA!

2011-10-04 Thread Shoaf,Judith P
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] videolib Digest, Vol 47, Issue 32

2011-10-06 Thread Shoaf,Judith P
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] you know things are messed up when librarians start marching

2011-10-07 Thread Shoaf,Judith P
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

2011-10-07 Thread Shoaf,Judith P
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] Film studies inc.

2011-12-16 Thread Shoaf,Judith P
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.

2011-12-16 Thread Shoaf,Judith P
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] Looking for Bahia: Africa in the Americas

2012-01-26 Thread Shoaf,Judith P
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.

[Videolib] Digital reserves/course packets

2012-02-07 Thread Shoaf,Judith P
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] (was) Looking for The Red and the Black - region 1 dvds

2012-02-16 Thread Shoaf,Judith P
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

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

2012-02-17 Thread Shoaf,Judith P
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] 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?

2012-03-20 Thread Shoaf,Judith P
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] streaming rights for Truffaut's Shoot the Piano Player?

2012-05-08 Thread Shoaf,Judith P
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] Permissible amounts in fair use

2012-05-15 Thread Shoaf,Judith P
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

2012-05-15 Thread Shoaf,Judith P
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

2012-05-15 Thread Shoaf,Judith P
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] Permissible amounts in fair use

2012-05-16 Thread Shoaf,Judith P
-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

[Videolib] Online copyright tools

2012-05-30 Thread Shoaf,Judith P
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

2012-05-30 Thread Shoaf,Judith P
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] Americas - Annenberg/PBS series

2012-07-03 Thread Shoaf,Judith P
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

Re: [Videolib] Impact of GSU

2012-07-13 Thread Shoaf,Judith P
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] Trimming the cruft

2012-08-06 Thread Shoaf,Judith P
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] Change of format

2012-10-12 Thread Shoaf,Judith P
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] Viktor und Viktoria

2013-01-24 Thread Shoaf,Judith P
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

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

2013-02-13 Thread Shoaf,Judith P
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] PPR/1st sale/Sec. 108 (Was: Emails like this)

2013-02-19 Thread Shoaf,Judith P
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

Re: [Videolib] A Distributor's Response

2013-02-26 Thread Shoaf,Judith P
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] UCLA has announced NewsScape an online archive of newscasts since 2005 from around the world

2013-03-11 Thread Shoaf,Judith P
. 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] Streetcars and trolleys

2013-03-15 Thread Shoaf,Judith P
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] Supreme Court ruling in Rule of First Sale

2013-03-20 Thread Shoaf,Judith P
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] Is Streaming transformative?

2013-05-01 Thread Shoaf,Judith P
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] Is Streaming transformative?

2013-05-02 Thread Shoaf,Judith P
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?

2013-05-02 Thread Shoaf,Judith P
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?

2013-05-02 Thread Shoaf,Judith P
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?

2013-05-02 Thread Shoaf,Judith P
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

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