Hi Danielle, Check out this article from the Stanford Law Center: http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/node/5014 . It spells out very clearly the exemption for film and media studies professors for classroom use. It also points out the potential grey areas. A search of the US Copyright Office's website shows that one of the proposed changes is to extend this protection to professors in any subject, which is the most problematic of the grey areas pointed out in the article. One thing I realized reading it this time is that the clips have to come from materials owned by the library or department (not Netflix or video store rentals). The reg (and a long explanation of the exemptions) can be found here: http://www.copyright.gov/fedreg/2006/71fr68472.pdf Hope this helps, Amy Holberg University of Maryland, University College Pyongtaek, Korea PS -- A program called "DVD Shrink" (free online) can be used to arrange the clips, then you need a burning program like DVD Decrypter or Nero (also online downloads) to burn the DVDs. Your IT department probably has better software that will result in more user-friendly compilations, though, if you can get them to read the regulation and make your DVDs for you. -----Original Message----- From: Film and TV Studies Discussion List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of SCREEN-L automatic digest system Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2009 3:00 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: SCREEN-L Digest - 25 Feb 2009 to 2 Mar 2009 (#2009-21) There is 1 message totalling 39 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. making clips....practical matters ---- For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:50:33 -0600 From: "Glassmeyer, Danielle" <[log in to unmask]> Subject: making clips....practical matters My school's AV/IT support department has just told me that they can't legally make clips from any film source for any reason due to copyright issues. Before I say "pish posh", I thought I might ask here... I need clips from feature films that would fall well under 10 % of total running time. I would be using them in classroom and conference presentation only. And they are not Disney. And it's okay with me if the clips are housed on a password-restricted streaming server. Three requests -- can you all point me toward the current law so I can review what it says? -- can you all make suggestions about workarounds if you have had a similar problem? --can you all help me to figure out what kind of equipment and programs I would need to do this on my own? Thanks in advance for advice and help! Danielle Glassmeyer English Department Bradley University ---- Learn to speak like a film/TV professor! Listen to the ScreenLex podcast: http://www.screenlex.org ------------------------------ End of SCREEN-L Digest - 25 Feb 2009 to 2 Mar 2009 (#2009-21) ************************************************************* ---- For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html