Re: Cable TV instruction

On Tue, 8 Oct 1996, David Bozak <dab[_at_]altair.cs.oswego.edu> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 7 Oct 1996 GMCKAY[_at_]BETA.NMJC.CC.NM.US wrote:
> >
> > An English professor at my community college wants to teach
> > American Literature over a cable TV access channel to the general public
> > in the local area served by the college. While available to the general
> > public the course's intended audience would be registered students.
> >
> ...
> >
> > What if the professor wants to enrich the course by displaying
> > two or three pictures per one-hour segment, such as the cover of a book,
> > or a color plate of a painting or photograph which relates to the
> > literature she is commenting upon? I suppose she'd be sliding the
> > graphic underneath a document camera and displaying it to the students
> > for a few seconds or so as she teaches.
>
> i have been teaching a distance learning course on computing for three
> semesters now, with cable being the easiest distribution channel
> throughout central new york. our experience is that if we didn't create
> it ourselves, we get written permission from the copyright holders of the
> images, sound files, whatever. we have VERY fat notebooks documenting
> every instance.
>
> the exception to this, and specifially asked above, is that we understand
> that we can show a book - full cover, with author and noting the
> publisher. For example, i show the textbook being used in the course,
> and from time to time make specific recommendations "for further reading"
> where i show the cover (video visualizer) and provide a complete citation
> (publisher, date, whatever).
>
> but, for ANY image, i either create it myself, get written permission, or
> do without.
>
> -dab
>
> David Alan Bozak Computer Science Department ________|________
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Why wouldn't the display of the visual works fall within the exemption from copyright infringement set forth in section 110(2) of the Copyright Act?

                            Thomas F. Cotter        
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