Re: request for Euro IP information

I sent the following question on 2/24, and didn't see it either posted, or any response to it before my departure on 3/1 for a conference. Upon my return today, I had a ton of e-mail messages, but none on my query. Is this because my message was stopped for whatever reasons at the CNI message clearing center, or because no one has any thoughts on the matter I raise? Can someone who administers the list reply and advise: Did you even receive my original? If you advise that my message was received and distributed, I'll re-investigate on my end. Many thanks.

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A memo concerning a request for Euro IP information that showed up prompts me to direct a question concerning not only software, but also videos. My query is as follows:

        If a film is originally made in a European country (France, Italy, wherever) and then licensed for distribution in the United States on video with English subtitles, or dubbed into English what restrictions, if any, prevail concerning a teacher "re-importing" (carrying back into the country of origin) the English subtitled or dubbed version for student use or in face-to-face teaching in the classroom? Many American colleges and universities run foreign programs for their American students who take semesters abroad. Faculty find that the use of such videos can be helpful, and some have brought their personal copies of such material along with them just for such orientation and/or classroom use. Their institutions often purchase the compatible hardware to play them on, so conversion from NTSC isn't an issue. But is there another set of issues that this creates? The chief reason that these videos travel from the U.S. is because they aren't available in the host country - or - when they are, not with English subs or dubs.

        Also, are there academic libraries who respond to such requests from their foreign programs, and circulate their video materials for semester loans to those programs? If so, please advise the justification for doing so without international and other levels of copyright/intellectual property violations.

Many thanks for your consideration of this issue. LT

         Lynn Talit, Film & Video Curator    Trinity College Library - Hartford, CT 06106-3100

     Phone: (203)297-2260  -  Fax: (203)297-2251
      Internet: Lynn.Talit[_at_]mail.Trincoll.edu       


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         Lynn Talit, Film & Video Curator
   Trinity College Library - Hartford, CT 06106-3100
     Phone: (203)297-2260  -  Fax: (203)297-2251
      Internet: Lynn.Talit[_at_]mail.Trincoll.edu       


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