To be fair to Ubuweb, when I asked them to remove FILM BY SAMUEL BECKETT, they did so almost immediately. But I had to find it first.
If they had gone to everybody and notified them and gotten permission or were ignored, even then the latter case, it might be on the border of okay. But since they put it up without asking, I can't say it's legit to use it unless it's PD. 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: milefi...@gmail.com 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 Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 12:42 PM, Karsten, Eileen <kars...@mx.lakeforest.edu > wrote: > Does anyone know if the films available from SIMAP Project – Download > dvdrip, divx, mp4, dvd movies <http://www.simap-project.org> are legal? > They have available a movie for download that one of our faculty is > interested in showing to a class. There appears to be no information on > this site. **** > > ** ** > > *I found another site called ubuweb film. They have a FAQ section and > their policy on copyright is*:**** > > ** ** > > *What is your policy concerning posting copyrighted material?* > If it's out of print, we feel it's fair game. Or if something is in print, > yet absurdly priced or insanely hard to procure, we'll take a chance on it. > But if it's in print and available to all, we won't touch it. The last > thing we'd want to do is to take the meager amount of money out of the > pockets of those releasing generally poorly-selling materials of the > avant-garde. UbuWeb functions as a distribution center for hard-to-find, > out-of-print and obscure materials, transferred digitally to the web. Our > scanning, say, an historical concrete poem in no way detracts from the > physical value of that object in the real world; in fact, it probably > enhances it. Either way, we don't care: Ebay is full of wonderful physical > artifacts, most of them worth a lot of money. > > Should something return to print, we will remove it from our site > immediately. Also, should an artist find their material posted on UbuWeb > without permission and wants it removed, please let us know. However, most > of the time, we find artists are thrilled to find their work cared for and > displayed in a sympathetic context. As always, we welcome more work from > existing artists on site. > > Let's face it, if we had to get permission from everyone on UbuWeb, there > would be no UbuWeb.**** > > ** ** > > *If Guy Dubord’s family has not told them to remove his films, could they > be considered legit?* > > ** ** > > Thank you for any help with my questions. **** > > ** ** > > Eileen Karsten**** > > Head of Technical Services**** > > Donnelley & Lee Library**** > > Lake Forest College**** > > 555 N. Sheridan Road **** > > Lake Forest, IL 60045**** > > kars...@mx.lakeforest.edu <kars...@lakeforest.edu>**** > > 847-735-5066**** > > ** ** > > 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. > > --
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