RE: showing rental videos

[Deg Farrelly <DEG.FARRELLY@xxxxxxx>]

Not much grey here at all... the law is quite specific....

http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#110

It is not an infringement of copyright to:

Display
by faculty or students
in face-to-face teaching
in a nonprofit educational institution
in a classroom (or similar place devoted to instruction)
legal copy



deg farrelly, Associate Librarian
Media / Communication Studies / Women's Studies
Arizona State University West
P.O. Box 37100
Phoenix, Arizona  85069-7100
Phone:  602.543.8522



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> Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 15:07:19 -0600
> From: "Roegge, Kathleen" <Roegge.Kathleen@xxxxxxx>
> Subject: showing rental videos
>
> Hi,
> 	This has always been a gray area to me.  Can an instructor show a
> commercial film , the title of the film is Trainspotting, that they have
> rented from a local video store in a college auditorium to their class?
> What types of restrictions need to be in place or do they need to ask for
> permission from the film's distributor to show it?
>
> Kathleen Roegge
> Access Services Manager
> University of Illinois at Springfield
> Brookens Library
> kroeg1@xxxxxxx
>
>