But does Hugh's Hacking a portion into a power point presentation
(assuming used for teaching a class for the moment) constitute "fair
use", if he is doing it for the classroom?
I bet there are many well-paid lawyers who could argue either side of
that question.
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Joel Rauber
Department of Physics - SDSU
Joel.Rauber@sdstate.edu
605-688-4293
| -----Original Message-----
| From: phys-l-bounces@carnot.physics.buffalo.edu
| [mailto:phys-l-bounces@carnot.physics.buffalo.edu] On Behalf
| Of Jack Uretsky
| Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 5:42 PM
| To: Forum for Physics Educators
| Subject: Re: [Phys-l] Video Encyclopedia of Physics Demos (ownership)
|
| Hi all-
| Sorry, Hugh, but when you buy a licensed product, such
| as software, and agree to the license terms (which, in many
| cases, you must do to open the software) you are bound by the
| license terms. Copyright ownership is protected by federal
| criminal statutes, as well as by the possibility of suit by
| the copyright owner.
| I have been in a law firm that contacted the fbi to
| bring criminal proceedings against a company that violated
| the copyright of one of our clients.
| regards,
| Jack
|
|
|
| On Wed, 18 Oct 2006, Hugh Haskell wrote:
|
| > At 10:06 -0400 10/18/06, Bob LaMontagne wrote:
| >
| >> The DVD is very klutzy. It requires sitting through a lengthy
| >> introduction about the Video Encyclopedia itself before running a
| >> demo. There is no way around this. Trying to get to the next demo
| >> that you want to use is very convoluted and doesn't always work so
| >> you have to start over and replay the introduction. I have found a
| >> way to "hack" the video and embed the individual demos
| into my Power
| >> Point. I know it's not legal and the company that bought
| the rights
| >> to sell the DVD version was not pleased when I told them how I did
| >> it, but I feel that once I bought the product I own it and
| can use it
| >> in a manner most convenient for me. I would certainly not
| encourage
| >> others to do the same. I really think the people who
| produce the DVD
| >> should make it more user friendly - the unwieldy interface
| has to be hurting sales.
| >
| > I agree that laser disks had lots of cool navigational
| features, but
| > DVDs are not devoid of that capability, at least when used with a
| > computer rather than a basic vanilla DVD player. I use DVDs
| for this
| > purpose a lot, and all I need to do is run the DVD before I want to
| > use it and bookmark any part I want to show. The bookmarks
| are stored
| > in the computer and when I play the DVD, I can select any
| bookmark at
| > any time and the player jumps to the point I have marked. I
| give them
| > names that are descriptive of what is on the clip I want and it is
| > easy to find them almost instantly. I haven't used the
| Encyclopedia of
| > Demos DVDs but I would imagine that one could go through
| any given DVD
| > in advance and bookmark the beginning of each demo, giving it a
| > suitable name, and then whenever you play it back on the same
| > computer, you can go directly to the place you desire
| without having
| > to go through any unnecessary preliminaries.
| >
| > Unfortunately, laser disks seem to be going the way of the
| dinosaurs,
| > so getting conversant with the way one can do that on DVDs
| seems to be
| > worth the effort.
| >
| > I also assume that, if one knows where the bookmarks are
| stored in the
| > computer, you can transfer them to any other computer so you don't
| > have to recreate them for every computer they will be used on.
| > I don't know where they are stored on my computer, so I
| haven't tried
| > that.
| >
| > Hugh
| >
|
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| just before leading them into the Little Big Horn Valley
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