Oooh! Deg!!! Deg!!! Can I rant first? Please!!! God knows my days as a distributor will be over in the next decade or so, but let's not hasten it. And such a future decision will be disastrous in certain cases. I'll give you a couple right now.
We lost the rights to silent film a couple years ago. I just gave away the last DVD today to someone. That film is owned and copyrighted by a foreign producer but not distributed in the United States, though it is in Germany and the UK. Now, a library could state that to buy a copy of the DVD from the UK for $40 is prohibitive or that they are not allowed to make purchases overseas. So if copies are made and distributed to other localities, what financial incentive is there for another distributor to bring out a new release of it -- and these days, in a version multiple times better than my copy was? The second example would be an indie director who prefers to sell his copies for $495. And let's say some buyers don't know how to do specialized searches for the director. If copies are made and borrowed by a library because they decided that $495 is too much money or that the director's films are not found in the Baker & Taylor catalog, does that justify the lack of payment to a filmmaker and does it discourage the filmmaker from making his films available digitally in the first place because people are duping them legally? I think libraries are places for access while protecting their materials (though why there are not more of you joining AMIA is beyond my comprehension! -- there another rant), but once they take it on themselves to become distributors by producing copies and sending them out, they might be doing more damage than good. -- Best regards, Dennis Doros Milestone Film & Video/Milliarium Zero PO Box 128 / Harrington Park, NJ 07640 Phone: 201-767-3117 / Fax: 201-767-3035 / Email: [email protected] Visit our main website! www.milestonefilms.com Visit our new websites! www.shirleyclarkefilms.com, www.comebackafrica.com www.ontheboweryfilm.com <http://www.killerofsheep.com/> Support "Milestone Film" on Facebook<http://www.facebook.com/pages/Milestone-Film/22348485426> and Twitter <https://twitter.com/#!/MilestoneFilms>! See the website: Association of Moving Image Archivists<http://www.amianet.org/> and like them on Facebook<http://www.facebook.com/pages/Association-of-Moving-Image-Archivists/86854559717> AMIA 2013 Conference, Richmond, Virginia, November 5-9!<http://www.amianet.org/> On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 1:57 PM, Deg Farrelly <[email protected]> wrote: > Read the Work Group report and recommendations. > > Formerly distributed: > http://www.section108.gov/docs/Sec108StudyGroupReport.pdf > > > (page 15) > > > > > > > > > 5. > The prohibition on off-site lending of > digital replacement copies > should > be modified so that if the library¹s or archives¹ original copy of a work > is > in a physical digital medium that can lawfully be lent off-site, then it > may > also lend for off-site use any replacement copy reproduced in the same or > equivalent physical digital medium, with technological protection mea- > sures equivalent to those applied to the original (if any). > > > > deg farrelly, Media Librarian > Arizona State University Libraries > Hayden Library C1H1 > P.O. Box 871006 > Tempe, Arizona 85287-1006 > Phone: 602.332.3103 > > > > > > > > > On 2/14/13 7:39 AM, "[email protected]" > <[email protected]> wrote: > > >------------------------------ > > > >From: Jessica Rosner <[email protected]> > >Subject: Re: [Videolib] Brief Summary on the Copyright Exceptions for > > Libraries in the Digital Age: Section 108 Reform > > > > > >Um can you explain what "permitting loan of a copy of something that was > >originally purchased to be loaned". That sounds like it covers any item in > >a library so you should be able to make a copy anything in the collection > >( > >book, DVD, magazine) and loan the copy instead of the original? I am kind > >of lost on that one. > > > 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.
