Re: school district video server

On 30 Mar 2000, Maribel Garza-Castro <mgcastro16[_at_]hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Our school, via a grant, has installed a video server. It has the
> capability of taking videos, digitizing them and storing them in a
> library to be accessed by anyone that is networked to this server,
> which means basically anyone in our school district savvy enough to
> map a path to our server.
>
> This project got started with Rice University and they sent out the
> consultant to help set up the server and train me, the librarian, how
> to run and work the system. I'm extremely concerned because I know
> that I can't just take a video, digitize it and house it in the
> digital video library without breaking copyright laws.
>
> My question is this: How do I make things legal, how do I prevent
> myself from breaking laws? I want this to be taken off the ground
> but not at the expense of illegality.

You have to contact every copyrightowner that has made a video you are thinking of storing and ask for permission and if so pay if the copyrghtowner wants payment. School is considered as work and business at least in courtcases in sweden

best regards

Staffan Teste
<teste[_at_]blf.se> Received on Sat Apr 01 2000 - 10:59:12 GMT