The vendor's statement is considerably more liberal than the copyright law
in defining "classroom"...I wouldn't squawk!
Gary Handman
> List members,
>
> I noted this today on a vendor website:
>
> "Educational Public Performance Rights (PPR) allow for screening IN A
> CLASSROOM SETTING ONLY for matriculated students in any not-for-profit
> institution - universities, museums, galleries, libraries, microcinemas,
> community centers, or educational institutions, in an educational
> context."
>
> This assertion seems to contradict what U.S. Copyright Title 17 states
> regarding library and classroom use ("performance or display of work by
> instructors or pupils in the course of face-to-face teaching activities of
> a nonprofit educational institution, in a classroom or similar place
> devoted to instruction").
>
> I know that this topic has been well discussed on the list, but
> "educational public performance rights" was a new wrinkle for me.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Karen G. Ketchaver
> Acquisitions Unit Leader
> Grasselli Library
> John Carroll University
> 20700 North Park Blvd.
> University Hts., Ohio 44118-4581
> U.S.A.
> (216)397-1622 phone/(216)397-1809 fax
>
>
>
>
> 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.
