OK...here's the deal: the US Copyright law allows us all an exemption for screening WHOLE copyrighted videos in face-to-face teaching (one of the very few such exemptions granted users)
A distributor or filmmaker can trump these exemptions (or other copyright allowances) by requiring buyers to agree to a commercial contract that stipulates certain uses or types of use. What's going on with the company you mention is that they are mixing the two things up. They are clueless about what Public Performance and (particularly) fair use are all about...they're 100% off the mark. They CAN, however, define the types of uses allowed with purchase. Again, what's going on has to do with contracts, not copyright. Gary Handman > Good Morning, > > I am trying to purchase a set of dvds from a company who seems to have > their own definition of what is allowed with face to face teaching. Here > is what one must agree to when checking out online. (among other things). > > "Public Performance / Fair Use: Unless authorized in writing, our > courses are NOT licensed Public Performance, such as showing in a > classroom. However, we consider less than a total of 30 minutes of > classroom display as Fair Use, and actually a kind of PR, so thank you > very much! But for longer use, we kindly ask that you get a Public > Performance License." > > Just to clarify, we would be happy to pay the extra $150 for a PPR > license but this is what they define as PPR. > > "In the Shop menu select Public Performance Licenses -> Single > Teacher, and add to your shopping cart." > > Does anyone have an suggestions as to how to approach this. I am unable > to find the material anywhere else. Thanks for your help with this. > > Jean > -- > Jean Reese > Coordinator, Collection Development > Instructional Media Resources > Middle Tennessee State University > 1301 E. Main St., P.O. Box 33 > Murfreesboro, TN 37132 > phone 615-898-2725 > fax 615-898-2530 > > Email: [email protected] > IMR website: http://www.mtsu.edu/~imr > > Follow us on Facebook > MTSU Media Library > > > > > > > > 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 institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve > as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of > communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video > producers and distributors. > Gary Handman Director Media Resources Center Moffitt Library UC Berkeley 510-643-8566 [email protected] http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC "I have always preferred the reflection of life to life itself." --Francois Truffaut 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 institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors.
