Nonetheless: if it were me, I'd go for it... You can always cease and
desist later.
By the way...just read about one of my favorite T-Shirt slogans of all time:
"Copyright Infringement: Your Best Entertainment Value!"
At 01:30 PM 06/08/2000 -0700, you wrote:
>Can I ask a question? We presently have a 1961 recording on an old 45
vinyl record. It is a song
>sang by a local choir. We had a company put it on a compact disc for us. I
>would like to put it on our webpage on a MP3 file. Is this legal if the
company is no
>longer in business? The people listed on the record have all passed away.
>Any suggestions or comments appreciated.
>Carol Dunn
>AV Librarian, NT Administrator and Webmaster
>Findlay-Hancock County Public Library
>206 Broadway
>Findlay, Ohio 45840
>419.422.1712 Ext. 217
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Gary Handman [SMTP:ghandman@library.berkeley.edu]
>Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2000 3:04 PM
>To: Multiple recipients of list
>Subject: Re: 3/4 inch replacements
>
>The jury is sorta out on this one... while the c. law deals with making
>tape copies of phonodiscs as archival backups, there's really nuthin'
>analogous in the law about videos (all that's there is the damn
>derivative work right of the c. holder, which does nothing for us, of
>course).
>
>
>That said, I think it is perfectly reasonable to go ahead and make a
>replacement copy of a work which is physically at risk and no longer
>available on the open market. I'd be sure your attempt to score a
>replacement at fair market value is at least somewhat documented. I'd
>only make <underline>one</underline> copy; and I don't think I'd
>circulate the original.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>At 11:41 AM 06/08/2000 -0700, you wrote:
>
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><excerpt><smaller>After having documented that the program is no longer
>available for purchase, and documenting attempts to contact the original
>producers (assuming such attempts are futile) for permission to duplicate
>to VHS, is she not then reasonably assured that duplicating a set of the
>series, and then discarding the 3/4" originals, would be permissible?
>
>Just wondering,
>
>Gail B. Fedak
>
>Instructional Media Resources
>
>Middle Tennessee State University
>
>Murfreesboro, TN 37132
>
>phone 615-898-2740
>
>fax 615-898-2530
>
>email <<mailto:gfedak@mtsu.edu>gfedak@mtsu.edu
>
></smaller>
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>
>Gary Handman
>
>Director
>
>Media Resources Center
>
>Moffitt Library
>
>UC Berkeley 94720-6000
>
>http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC
>
>
>"Everything wants to become television" (James Ulmer -- Teletheory)
>
>
>
Gary Handman
Director
Media Resources Center
Moffitt Library
UC Berkeley 94720-6000
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC
"Everything wants to become television" (James Ulmer -- Teletheory)