Farhad, I'm sure others will jump in on the changing format/streaming video part of this question, but I'd like to address "scanning books is not against copyright law." I'm sure this refers to yesterday's ruling in the Hathi trust case, in which a judge ruled (fair warning: I'm not a copyright attorney, just a librarian, and this is my interpretation!) that *the ways in which Hathi Trust is using the scanned books* is not against copyright law. As most will be aware from this lawsuit and the other Google-Books related lawsuits, simply "scanning books" is not the issue. Scanning books that are still in copyright and making them freely available without permission is against copyright law. I believe the person who told you this is giving you an overly simplistic (and incorrect) interpretation of the judge's ruling.
Cary Jardine, MLS Research and Instruction Librarian Antioch University New England Keene, NH 03431 603.283.2405 [email protected] On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 1:06 PM, Moshiri, Farhad <[email protected]> wrote: > I’m sure many of you had the same experience as I: your IT Department > people would come to the library and tell you why are you collecting all > these DVDs, CDs, VHS tapes? Transfer them all to streaming video or audio > and put them online with log-in access protection. When I reply that > copyright law does not let you change the format without the copyright > holder’s permission, they tell me show us the law. They say even if it is > in the law, it falls into fair use for non-profit educational institution. > Can you direct me to the exact place in the law that talks about change of > format and its exceptions? Also, yesterday one of them told me a federal > judge has ruled that scanning books is not against copyright law. He said > there is no difference between scanning a print book and put it online and > transferring a DVD, CD, or a VHS to streaming video or audio. What do you > think? Thanks.**** > > ** ** > > Farhad Moshiri**** > > Audiovisual Librarian**** > > University of the Incarnate Word**** > > San Antonio, TX**** > > ------------------------------ > This email and any files transmitted with it may be confidential or > contain privileged information and are intended solely for the use of the > individual or entity to which they are addressed. If you are not the > intended recipient, please be advised that you have received this email in > error and that any use, dissemination, forwarding, printing, or copying of > this email and any attachments is strictly prohibited. If you have received > this email in error, please immediately delete the email and any > attachments from your system and notify the sender. Any other use of this > e-mail is prohibited. Thank you for your compliance. > > 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.
