The off-air taping part of the equation has to do with the Kastenmeir
Guidelines for off-air tape (again, they're GUIDELINES, not law)
(http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/Kastenmeier.html)
The two don't really have all that much to do with each other.
I think you'd be skating on verrrrrrrrrrrry thin ice doing what you propose.
At 01:40 PM 09/12/2000 -0700, you wrote:
>Greetings,
>Would the esteemed members (or at least those willing to venture their
>thoughts) shed some light on the "less of 3 minutes or 10%" fair use
>rule for video with regard to teacher prepared material (Hyperstudio or
>PowerPoint). In particular, do the rules for off-air taping (i.e. show
>full piece once in 30 days and parts of piece within another 15) trump
>the above fair use rule? Specific instance: teacher wishes to prepare a
>digitized video clip of 2 minutes from material taped off-air over 45
>days ago.
>Many thanks in advance!
>--
>Pierre J. Gregoire, MLIS.
>Director
>Audio Visual Institute of DuPage
>The Regional Media Library for the
>Teachers and Students of DuPage County
>http://www.avid.dupage.k12.il.us
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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)