RE: TEACH Questions

["John T. Mitchell" <John@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Answers to:
>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: Rosalind Tedford [mailto:tedforrl@xxxxxxx] 
>  Subject: TEACH Questions
>  
>  *1. Performance vs. Display*:  . . . But there is clearly a
difference between PERFORMANCE and DISPLAYS, correct? PERFORMANCES are
sequential displays of a portion of a movie and DISPLAYS are non
sequential displays of images from that movie? 

Right.  You perform a scene by showing the "moving" motion picture.  You
display a scene by showing a still shot.  The third circuit recently got
that wrong, ruling that a video clip infringed the exclusive right to
display the work publicly when streamed over the Internet, but it was
more of a sloppy slip-up than a holding.

>  *2. Digital Versions:* Do DVDs count as Digital versions? . . .  can
you then digitize the DVD . . . or not?

Most definitely, DVDs are digital copies.  So are CDs.  You can't
"digitize" (i.e. convert from analog to digital) a DVD, because it is
already in digital form.

John
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