This collection of Maureen's reminds me of older media monitoring services, like VMS and AIS. They had pretty extensive collections of television from different markets and some of them dated back a ways. I always wondered what happened to the collections once VMS went out of business, which I think it did in 2011.
Best wishes, Laura Laura Jenemann Film Studies/Media Services Librarian Johnson Center Library George Mason University 4400 University Drive MS 1A6 Fairfax VA, 22030 Phone: 703-993-7593 Email: [email protected] On 7/25/2013 4:09 PM, Nellie J Chenault wrote: > Reminder. U.S. Copyright law section 108 f 3 relates to library > recording, archiving and lending news broadcasts. Permissions are not > necessary for hard and live news; news programs and specials are a > different matter. > > The main issue may be whether retention and conversion of these > recordings at your library is necessary for access. What is duplicated > within reliable archives? How much of your news archive is local news? > That may be the area where you should put your efforts. > > Besides the unreliable YouTube, there are the commercial news archives > (NBC, Vanderbilit, CSpan) as well as the TVNews within the Internet > Archive. > > You may be able to contribute some of those recordings to the Internet > Archive .... > > Nell Chenault > VCU Libraries > > > On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 3:34 PM, Jessica Rosner <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > I think you need more information to give an informed answer. Are > you talking about random newscasts taped off air that you now want > to transfer to digital? This would be highly problematic for many > reasons. Are you talking about news programming that you purchased > on VHS that is not available on DVD. > > Everyone is assuming this material is not available digitally from > the rights holder but again I would need more information on the > nature of the material to give an informed answer. I think the > biggest problem overall is that almost no one ever mentions that due > diligence would require you to check with the rights holder. They > may say no, they may quote a price you think insanely high or they > might say go ahead but unless you actually ask the rights holder ( > and it sounds like you know who they are) you are going to be on > thin ice legally. > > > On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 1:55 PM, Jeanne Little > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > I would question the legality and possible copyright > infringement on maintaining videos recorded off of television, > even if they were kept in-house and not circulated outside of > the Library. I know from dealing with PBS in the past, that they > have a time-limit on the length of time you may retain a > recorded program from their station for educational use, unless > they held all of the copyright for the program. I would suspect > that stations such as NBC, CBS, etc. would not be amendable to > these titles being taped and retained for public consumption. > > Just my two cents... > > Jeanne Little > > Rod Library > University of Northern Iowa > > > On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 10:50 AM, Maureen Tripp > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > wrote: > > From about 1981 to 2001 my media department routinely > recorded news off-air—not regular broadcasts, but coverage > of events like inaugurations, presidential debates, > Democratic and Republican national conventions, state of the > union addresses, as well as special events we considered > newsworthy, like Saddam Hussein and Dan Rather, and Nixon on > Meet the Press.____ > > These recordings are on VHS. A lot of this material, like > coverage of 9/11, is on youtube. I wonder, though, if it is > worth transferring our vhs material to dvd? Might stuff on > youtube go away at some point? ____ > > I also wonder about the ethics of doing this. We would keep > these DVDs for inhouse viewing only.____ > > I’d really appreciate your thoughts—____ > > __ __ > > > 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. 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