Hi Lowell,
You're mixing a bunch of different things here.
1. Is it legally posted on YouTube by the copyright holder? I'm guessing no,
and therefore should not be recommended to the faculty member.
2. Public performance rights are for screening outside of a classroom and are
irrelevant here.
3. The TEACH Act theoretically helps us decide whether it's okay to make a film
available via course management system. It's not very helpful though, and
you're usually better off going back to Fair Use.
Do they want the entire film or just a scene?
Is this a face-to-face class where it would simple be more convenient to have
film available online? Or a distance ed class?
Barb Bergman | Media Services & Interlibrary Loan Librarian | Minnesota State
University, Mankato | 507-389-5945 | [email protected]
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Subject: [Videolib] Copyright question: American Playhouse Films
My apologies in advance if this topic was already covered at length.
We have instructors at my university who would like to have their
distance-education students watch the American Playhouse version of A Raisin in
the Sun (1989) that is currently available through YouTube. This version was
directed by Bill Duke and features Danny Glover and Esther Rolle. Do American
Playhouse films require public performance rights? The URL would be posted on
a web course through Blackboard.
Lowell Lybarger
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