Back in the early 1990s I built the feature film collection on laserdisc hereŠ. Over the years we have pulled those discs as the titles became available on DVD.
But some of them are not (original Showboat, for example). I plan to invoke Section 108 on those titles soon. -deg deg farrelly, Media Librarian Arizona State University Libraries Hayden Library C1H1 P.O. Box 871006 Tempe, Arizona 85287-1006 Phone: 602.332.3103 --- To market, to market, to find some fresh filmŠ I'm attending the 2013 National Media Market, November 3-7 In Charleston, South Carolina. See you there? On 3/26/13 6:59 AM, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > >One neat thing about laserdiscs is the fact that, while digital, they >don't >have the pesky copyright encoding that came later. I had a legitimate >request from a student several years ago to take a clip from a particular >movie so she could insert ads and record audience response and memory >recall for a psych experiment. I tried various things without success, >until - I remembered we had the title on laserdisc. Worked like a charm, >and she was able to do the experiment. >Mind you, I don't encourage wholesale copying of copyrighted material, but >not having to go through a whole learning curve on 'breaking' encoding can >come in handy for this legit use. >My two cents, >Val G. 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.
