Victor: here's ALA's guidelines regarding circulation of "home use"
videos
http://www.ala.org/ala/alalibrary/libraryfactsheet/
alalibraryfactsheet7.cfm
Janice Woo, Director of Libraries
California College of the Arts
5212 Broadway Oakland CA 94618
510.594.3660 || jwoo@cca.edu || library.cca.edu
On Jul 20, 2007, at 1:02 PM, Victor Stover wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> Our library purchased a copy of Twenty-Four Eyes, a film
> distributed by Panorama Distributions in Hong Kong. The DVD case
> has the following language:
> "The copyright proprietor has licensed the film (including its
> sound track) comprised in this videodisc for private home use
> only. All other rights are reserved. The definition of home use
> excludes the use of this videodisc at locations such as Clubs,
> Coaches, Hospitals, Hotels, Oilrigs, Prisons and Schools. Any
> unauthorized copying, editing, exhibition, renting, exchanging,
> hiring, lending, public performance diffusion and/or broadcast of
> this videodisc or any part thereof is strictly prohibited, is an
> infringement of copyright and any result in legal liability. This
> videodisc is sold / hired on the condition that it is not be sold,
> hired, exported, re-supplied or distributed by way of trade without
> a proper license from the copyright proprietor."
> Should I be worried about this? Would this prevent us from adding
> it to our circulating collection? Has anyone else ran into this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Victor Stover
> Acquisitions Assistant
> Oesterle Library
> North Central College
> Naperville, IL
> 630-637-5702 (voice)
> 630-637-5716 (fax)
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=Hello All,=
Our library purchased a copy of = Twenty-Four Eyes, a film distributed by Panorama Distributions = in Hong Kong.=A0 The DVD case has the following language:"The copyright proprietor has licensed the film (including its = sound track) comprised in this videodisc for private home use only.=A0 = All other rights are reserved.=A0 The definition of home use excludes = the use of this videodisc at locations such as Clubs, Coaches, = Hospitals, Hotels, Oilrigs, Prisons and Schools.=A0 Any unauthorized = copying, editing, exhibition, renting, exchanging, hiring, lending, = public performance diffusion and/or broadcast of this videodisc or any = part thereof is strictly prohibited, is an infringement of copyright and = any result in legal liability.=A0 This videodisc is sold / hired on the = condition that it is not be sold, hired, exported, re-supplied or = distributed by way of trade without a proper license from the copyright = proprietor."Should=A0I be worried about this?=A0 Would = this prevent us from adding it to our circulating collection?=A0 Has = anyone else ran into this?
Thanks,=A0=Victor Stover
Acquisitions Assistant
Oesterle = Library
North Central College
Naperville, IL
630-637-5702 = (voice)
630-637-5716 (fax)