Re: Video clips from TV News

From: Michael Seadle <seadle[_at_]MAIL.LIB.MSU.EDU>
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 08:45:23 -0400

On Wed, August 26, 1998, Madeleine Fix <fix.3[_at_]osu.edu> wrote:
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> On 8/25/98, Chris Hamel-Smith <chamel[_at_]wow.net> wrote:
> >
> > Anybody willing to venture some thoughts or guidance on the use of
> > short clips from news coverage (say some of the key shots of Bill,
> > Monica, etc.) incorporated into music video?
>
> Hi Chris Hamel-Smith:
>
> I think that anything you use from network television technically
> resides under the copyright of that particular network.
> [... deletions ...]

I believe 17 USC 108 (f 3) allows limited use of news broadcasts. The paragraph reads:

"(3) shall be construed to limit the reproduction and distribution by lending of a limited number of copies and excerpts by a library or archives of an audiovisual news program, subject to clauses (1), (2), and (3) of subsection (a);"

USC annotated interprets "news" rather narrowly to exclude broadcast journals, but I don't think this interpretation has ever been tested in court.

A question which interests me in this thread is how the phrase "a limited number of copies" might be interpreted for web use. Anyone want to give an opinion?

Best wishes... Michael

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