Let's put it this way, Jessica: I have about 32K tapes in my collection,
and I can confidently say that I can show significant deterioration for
the majority.
This feature of 108 is perhaps the most idiotic of them all: what it
effectively says is that you have to wait until the medium is
No what it effectively says is you don't get the right to make a free copy
or upgrade. It is pretty clear it was written for preservation and research
not for circulation which would include classroom use. If you could just
digitize everything ( which to be honest is happening in many
Jessica...
There's a HELL of a lot of difference between freely digitizing and
delivering in-distribution content (under the banner of 107 or other
rationales) and invoking 108 to save content that is out-of-distribution
and at risk of going away for good. Come on, J. You KNOW these two
things
Except a ton of stuff is out of distribution and the rights holder can't
afford to upgrade. If you give libraries carte blanche to make DVDs of any
out of print video and that does seem to be what you are suggesting, it will
be the end of educational distributors.
The title that started this
Because if ever library who bought a VHS just makes their own DVD then the
actual owner has no incentive to make one because the market has been
fatally compromised. If a distributor is going to invest tens of thousands
of dollars and 300 major libraries already made their own DVD copies exactly
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 1:29 PM, ghand...@library.berkeley.edu wrote:
I've been in this biz close to 30 years and have virtually never seen a
title which has gone out of distribution for any period of time come back
in another format. It simply doesn't happen.
Gary. No reflection on the
I've seen it many times, beyond count, moreso with CDs but with videos as
well.
Your search for sound video ends here!
Jay Sonin, General Manager
Music Hunter Distributing Company
25-58 34th Street, Suite # 2
Astoria, NY 11103-4902
musichun...@nyc.rr.com
718-777-1949
- Original Message
In the early 90s we did a collection-wide conversion of our U-matics to
VHS based on whether we received permission from the copyright holders
to do so. Titles whose copyright holders outright said no or wanted a
license fee were not converted. Eventually, we were able to purchase or
duplicate
Hello,
I'm forwarding a question that was sent to me by a professor. If we do
not have the right to do what he's asking, can anyone give me contact
information for the rights-holder?
The Machine That Changed the World. A co-production of WGBH and the
BBC; the 5 VHS tapes our library owns
I would be stunned it it were PD. I believe in order for it to be PD it
would could never have been copyrighted in the first place as anything from
the last 30 years or so does not require renewal. Do you have link to that
reference? Also the fact that is NOT out on DVD is kind of sign it is NOT
It doesn't have to be in the PD in order for it to qualify for replacement
copying under Section 108, Jessica: 108 can be invoked as soon as the
library or archives has, after a reasonable effort, determined that an
unused replacement cannot be obtained at a fair price.
Recent discussions with
Gary, thanks for your insights on this.
Would it be possible to share the report for the Mellon project once it's
finished? I'm sure that many of us on the list would be interested in it.
Best,
James
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James M. Steffen, PhD
Film and Media Studies Librarian
Theater, Dance, ILA/IDS and LGBT
Hi James
The Mellon project I'm working on has to do with preservation of
out-of-distribution works. All this talk about 108 is, of course, a
central issue for this project. The project is initially focused on
identifying such stuff in three collections (NYU/Avery Fisher, Berkeley,
and Loyola,
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