fair use of videotapes

Here's a question for the group, posed by a clinical faculty member here:

She would like to know if she can take a commercially-produced videotape and make an edited copy for use in classroom presentations. This would not be a backup copy, which recent discussion again confirms cannot be done, and it would not otherwise come under the section 108(h) proscription (altho it could involve a library-purchased tape). An example she used was making a tape of several of the attorney/client scenes in "Kramer v Kramer." Is there anything to prevent a straight fair use analysis of this situation?

Rita Reusch
Law Library Director
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah 84112

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Internet: reusch[_at_]admn1.law.utah.edu Received on Sat Sep 25 1993 - 00:25:01 GMT