You can use any legally acquired film in a class under the "face to face" exemption in copyright law. It requires that the instructor be present and the film is shown for a specific class on enrolled students. As I have said many times, distributors including filmmakers may indeed require institutions to pay a higher fee but this is a matter of contract law. A school can show basically any film released in standard home video/ dvd in a class without paying studios or other owners an additional fee. Distributors of titles whose main audience is academic/institutional have every right to charge whatever they think appropriate but this again is a matter of contract not copyright and does realistically require that they control all sales directly.
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 2:59 PM, tony alosi <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Karen, > > Actually it would not be sufficient. To use in a classroom setting you > would need to purchase PPR rights. Otherwise it is not legal, and is unfair > to the writers directors and all of those who work hard to create content. > Not unlike downloading movies or for that matter music. It's just wrong > especially for an educational institution. > Just my two cents, > Anthony > > > On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 11:04 AM, Karen Ketchaver <[email protected]>wrote: > >> It seems to me that the vendor is directing me to buy the "educational >> PPR" version even if the film is only to be used for classroom instruction. >> Purchasing the regular retail version would be sufficient for that, would it >> not? >> >> Thanks again, >> >> Karen >> >> ---- Original message ---- >> >Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 16:48:36 +0000 >> >From: "Bergman, Barbara J" <[email protected]> >> >Subject: Re: [Videolib] "Educational PPR" >> >To: "'[email protected]'" <[email protected]> >> > >> >Interesting. They're granting you rights that we already have for >> classroom instruction under section 110 of the Copyright Law. >> >But by adding in other venues, it's practically giving you full public >> performance rights. >> >Not one to worry about. >> > >> >Barb Bergman | Media Services & Interlibrary Loan Librarian | Minnesota >> State University, Mankato | (507) 389-5945 | [email protected] >> > >> > >> >-----Original Message----- >> >From: [email protected] [mailto: >> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Karen Ketchaver >> >Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 9:41 AM >> >To: [email protected] >> >Subject: [Videolib] "Educational PPR" >> > >> >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. >> > >> >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. >> >> 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. >> > > > 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. > > -- Jessica Rosner Media Consultant 224-545-3897 (cell) 212-627-1785 (land line) [email protected]
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.
