1. Find the video you need and avoid
copyright issues
Beth Filar Williams
David Gwynn
Electronic Resources and Information Technology
Department, University Libraries
@Andres Rueda [CC BY 2.0] http://www.flickr.com/photos/23327787@N08/3064596190/

2. What rights does copyright grant?
• Right to reproduce the work
• Right to prepare derivative works
• Right to distribute copies
• Right of public performance
• Right of public display

3. Classroom use: What’s OK?
Almost anything, if it is:
• Part of the instructional program
• Shown only by students and instructors to
students and instructors
• In a physical classroom/education space
• Students and instructors are in physical proximity
• A legitimate, legal copy with copyright notice
intact
• Not used for entertainment or recreation

4. Can I record off TV?
• Yes, but all the previously-mentioned
conditions must be met.
• Video must be shown within ten days of
broadcast and destroyed within 45 days.
• Face-to-face classroom use only.

5. What’s not OK?
• “Ripping” a video or using any other
technology for circumventing copy protection
• Creating a digital backup copy of an analog
video (VHS, for example) if a digital copy is
available for purchase.

6. How about distance & online classes?
TEACH Act (2002) permits digital transmission if:
• Integral part of a single, typical class session.
• Part of systematic, mediated instructional
activity.
• At the direction of or under the actual
supervision of the instructor.

7. But there are limits:
• Fair use (“reasonable and limited portions”)
• Must be a legally-acquired copy (no “ripping”
or circumvention of DRM)
• Transmission limited to students and
educators
• Preclude retention of a usable copy as far as
possible (streamed vs. downloadable)
How about distance & online classes, con’t

8. • Actual damages
• Profits
• Statutory damages
• Costs and attorney fees
• Criminal liability
• DMCA civil and criminal liability
What are the penalties?

9. Scenario #1:
I want to digitize my home movies of a protest
demonstration in 1979 and use these materials
in an online class. Can I?
@ danny.hammontree [CC BY-NC-ND 2.0] http://www.flickr.com/photos/50016673@N00/18023812/

10. Scenario #2
How can I use material from an episode of
NOVA that I recorded last year?

11. Scenario #3
Can I show a DVD in the classroom even if I just
checked it out from the library or rented it, or
do I have to own it?
@john_a_ward [CC BY 2.0] http://www.flickr.com/photos/33624275@N00/313252221/

12. Scenario #4
Can I show a bootleg video of a Grateful Dead
show to my online class? How about in the
classroom? Can I make it available for download
if it’s password-protected?

13. Creative Commons
Basics
http://youtu.be/io3BrAQl3so
• An nonprofit corporation created to assist
content creators in bypassing the restrictions of
copyright: http://creativecommons.org/choose/
• A license you can get for your own work to
ensure that it can be shared (or used by) others.
• Look for this CC in order to use work by others!

14. How Does It Work?
…Creative Commons allows for “some rights reserved”
• The creator gets to decide what those rights are rather than the law
• protects free exchange of knowledge and collaborative work
• Gives control back to the creator to say “Yes. Use my work.”
Because copyright is
all or nothing…
http://uncg.libguides.com/content.php?pid=140286&sid=1197983

15. • Attribution by
• Others may copy, distribute, display, create
derivatives, and perform but only if give credit the
way the creator requests.
• Share Alike
• Others may distribute derivatives under a license
identical to yours.
• Non-Commercial
• Others may copy, distribute, etc but only for non-
commercial purposes.
• No Derivative Works
• Others may copy, distribute, etc only verbatim
copies and not derivatives.
CCLicenseConditions

20. Streaming Film Subscriptions
http://uncg.libguides.com/streamingfilms
• Ambrose Videos
• Alexander Street Press
collections:
• American History in Video
• Counseling and Therapy in
Video
• Dance in Video
• Ethnographic Video
Online
• Opera in Video
• Theatre in Video
• Films On Demand
• EVIA Digital Archive Project
• PBS Films (Via NC Live)
• Shoah Foundation Visual
History Archive
• SWANK Digital Campus

21. Alexander Street Press - Basics
• Academic Video Online: one-search of all ASP video
• Uses Adobe Flash
• Create clips or playlists instead of whole film
• Embed clips, playlists, films in Blackboard/Moodle
• Streaming only, no downloads
• Cannot show on your personal website or to a
general public audience - you CAN show to your
class F2F.

22. Alexander Street Press

23. Alexander Street Press

24. Alexander Street Press

25. Alexander Street Press

26. Lets demo ASP !

27. • Uses Adobe Flash
• Can embed segments or whole films
• Embed clips, playlists, films in
Blackboard/Moodle
• Streaming only, no downloads
• Cannot show on your personal website or to a
general public audience - you CAN show to
your class F2F.
Films on Demand - Basics

28. Films on Demand

29. Films on Demand

30. Films on Demand

31. Films on Demand

32. Let’s Demo FOD!

33. Swank’s Digital Campus: Basics
• Over 18,000 films from major Hollywood studios
available
• Instructors must select films and embed in
Blackboard/Moodle for students to view
• Instructors can customize lesson plans for each
film – use this in place of creating clips.
• Plan ahead—it can take up to 10 days to receive
film if no one else on campus has used it before
• Cannot show outside of Blackboard/Moodle, but
can stream in class

34. Digital Campus: Basics
 Step 1. Go the Streaming Films LibGuide and “log in to their
portal” (you need a password)
 Step 2. See what films are already available (once we buy
one film for a semester, anyone can use!)
 Step 3. Grab the link for the film you need to embed in
Blackboard/Moodle.
 Step 4. Don’t see the film you need? search Digital Campus
Catalog (no password necessary)
 Step 5. Request the film using the online form. Receive an
email < 10 days that its available in the Digital Campus portal.

35. Let’s Demo Digital Campus!

36. Digital Campus: Lesson Creation
For more in depth information on how to create
a lesson plan, we have resources available from
the Digital Campus page off our LibGuide:
Video Tutorial (10 minutes)
Instructor Guide (PDF)

37. Digital Campus(what instructors see)

38. Digital Campus (what students see)

39. Adding in Blackboard

42. Adding
embed code in
Blackboard:
• Make sure EDIT Mode is
checked as ON.
• Click BUILD CONTENT.
• Select ITEM.

44. OPTIONAL: Creating lesson plans

45. Q & A?