Since my name was mentioned, I need to reply to this mention of the VRT's Fair Use and Video, Community Practices in the Fair Use of Video in Libraries. This publication did not come out until this week so I could not have commented on it a year ago. I received it on the VRT listserv. I was not part of the group surveyed so I did not have any input into the community of practices. deg beat me in posting it to the listserv. I had not even mentioned it to deg. I have discussed it only in my CIP course on copyright that I'm currently taking with Kimberly Bonner. I suggest everyone take that course as you can never be "too educated" in copyright. I am finding the course very helpful in my work with faculty and my university.
I do have a comment though. On reading the case studies, case 4, course based streaming says in their fair use argument that "the nature of the copyrighted work. Section 110(2) allows for the streaming of entire non-dramatic works, so documentaries are entirely covered by this statute." I believe they left out a word and that word is important, it should read "Section 110(2) allows for the streaming of entire non-dramatic "literary" works..." This puts an entirely picture on streaming entire non-dramatic works. If I am reading this incorrectly, please let me know. Thanks, Jane Jane B. Hutchison Associate Director Member Instruction & Research Technology CCUMC: Leadership in Media & Academic Technology William Paterson University http://www.ccumc.org Wayne, NJ 07470 973-720-2980 (work) 973-418-7727 (cell) 973-720-2585 (facs) [email protected] From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bob Norris Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2012 10:31 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Videolib] Fair use and video document Interesting that Jane Hutchison comment on the almost year old article the day before deg posted it. Correlated? The us vs. them language seems natural to me in an article devoted to exploiting fair use to the fullest. Overall seemed on target to me. Claire Stewart, member of the working group and fellow Evanstonian, coauthored Intellectual Property Law & Interactive Media, Free For A Fee if you want to further devote your life to copyright law. Robert A. Norris Managing Director Film Ideas, Inc. Phone: (847) 419-0255 Email: [email protected] Web: www.filmideas.com <http://www.filmideas.com/> On May 2, 2012, at 8:40 PM, [email protected] wrote: From: Dennis Doros <[email protected]> Date: May 2, 2012 8:40:48 PM CDT To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Videolib] Fair use and video document Reply-To: [email protected] Well, deg's right that it'll probably cause some consternation among "my" people -- it's definitely inflammatory in its descriptions of distributors and the us versus them rhetoric and who "owns" the copyright law. I do appreciate the line near the end "Not a single librarian revealed herself as being either cavalier about the law or dismissive of the market" and know it to be the case among most but it would be nice to have some of the discussions we've had here about the balancing the needs of education versus the sustainability of producing new content. The lack thereof makes me want to set up fishing dates with Gary. :-) Dennis
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