Re: [Phys-l] Video Encyclopedia of Physics Demos (ownership)

[Hugh Haskell <hhaskell@mindspring.com>]

At 22:16  -0500 10/18/06, Jack Uretsky wrote:
> What does the license say?  Hugh is bound by that.  The well-paid lawyers
> will first look at the question, much discussed in the literature, as to
> whether the copyright holder has properly bound Hugh to the terms of the
> license.
Please, please, please! I am *not* copying any part of the discs, 
only putting bookmarks to the locations I am seeking in my computer. 
This does not modify or change or copy from the discs in any way. If 
showing excerpts from DVDs in a legitimate classroom violates the 
copyright laws then just about every school in the country is in 
violation of the copyright law.

I understand the situation where some schools copied huge sections of 
books in mass quantities and then sold them in their student 
bookstores. That is pretty clearly a violation of the copyright laws, 
but even copying small excerpts from books and handing them out in 
class (not charging for them) is within the copyright laws. All I am 
doing is *showing* excerpts, from the discs that I have purchased, to 
my classes. I also show the occasional complete video to a class. 
that has been standard classroom practice for decades. I don't think 
it has been changed.

Hugh
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