Re: Use of Pre-Recorded Videos in Interactive Television Courses

From: Jessica Litman <litman[_at_]mindspring.com>
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 1997 08:17:46 -0500

On 11/3/97, Glen McKay <gmckay[_at_]nmjc.cc.nm.us> wrote:
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> For the copyright holder? My question is *who in their right mind is
> going to (illegally) copy and disseminate a commercial video that's a
> quarter screen size and surrounded by all sorts of graphics, text and
> icons that closely identify the product with the sending institution?*
> How can the market possibly be harmed?

For the copyright holder, the license fees it might have charged to permit the distant-ed version to be made may add up to a considerable loss, especially if Universities all over take your approach. Cf. Texaco; Princeton University Press. (This is without mentioning the other uses to which that digitized file might be put once it is sitting there on that computer . . . )

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Jessica Litman
Visiting Professor, Washington College of Law litman[_at_]mindspring.com Received on Tue Nov 04 1997 - 13:19:34 GMT