Danielle: Your staring point should be the SCMS Statement on Best Practices in Fair Use in Teaching for Film and Media Educators: http://www.cmstudies.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=741&Itemid=1 The document makes note of the 2006 exemption the Library of Congress made to the DMCA for film and media educators. Best, es Eric Schaefer, Ph.D. Secretary, Society for Cinema and Media Studies Interim Chair, Department of Visual and Media Arts Emerson College 120 Boylston Street Boston, MA 02116 (617) 824-8861 -----Original Message----- From: Film and TV Studies Discussion List on behalf of Glassmeyer, Danielle Sent: Fri 2/27/2009 4:50 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [SCREEN-L] 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 ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.ScreenSite.org