Senate Bill # S.2644 and House Bill # H.R. 5361
Status is "Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary on 5/11/06
-- Jeanette
At 10:25 AM 9/15/2006, Gary Handman wrote:
>No, not legal without permission. Downloading is patently illegal
>and streaming is just plain illegal.
>
>Digitizing the work in the first place constitutes making a
>derivative work (one of the exclusive rights of copyright holders)
>and making the work available for either downloading or streaming is
>basically infringing on the performance rights of the copyright holder.
>
>Anyone know the current status of the proposed PERFORM
>Act? http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060426-6679.html
>
>
>Gary
>
>At 07:44 AM 9/15/2006, you wrote:
>>Hello,
>>
>>I hope some of you may have encountered this issue and can give our
>>library some direction.
>>
>>Is it legal to put a full length copyrighted film on electronic
>>reserve for students to download? What if the film is streamed instead?
>>
>>Thanks everyone for your help
>>
>>Mustafa Sakarya
>>Head of Library Media Services
>>Mercy College, Dobbs Ferry, NY
>
>Gary Handman
>Director
>Media Resources Center
>Moffitt Library
>UC Berkeley
>ghandman@library.berkeley.edu
>http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC
>
>*****
>
>"In societies where modern conditions of production prevail,
> all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation
> of spectacles."
> --Guy Debord
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Rio Grande Campus
Austin Community College
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Senate Bill # S.2644 and House Bill # H.R. 5361
No, not legal without permission. Downloading is patently illegal and streaming is just plain illegal.
Digitizing the work in the first place constitutes making a derivative work (one of the exclusive rights of copyright holders) and making the work available for either downloading or streaming is basically infringing on the performance rights of the copyright holder.
Anyone know the current status of the proposed PERFORM Act? http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060426-6679.html
Gary
At 07:44 AM 9/15/2006, you wrote:
Hello,
I hope some of you may have encountered this issue and can give our library some direction.
Is it legal to put a full length copyrighted film on electronic reserve for students to download? What if the film is streamed instead?
Thanks everyone for your help
Mustafa Sakarya
Head of Library Media Services
Mercy College, Dobbs Ferry, NY