Danielle, You should point your IT folks to these sites: *http://tinyurl.com/scmsteach *- a link to the SCMS Statement of Best Practices on Teaching and Fair Use http://www.asc.upenn.edu/DMCA/ - an outline of the exemption for film & media faculty from the DMCA What these will outline is that making clips as you describe from a non-encrypted source is fair use, and they should help you do that if such class tech support is part of their jobs. Making clips from an encrypted source (most DVDs) is still fair use, but the DMCA forbids overriding encryption - except for film & media faculty using it for teaching compilations. So technically, you'll need to do that yourself. As for tools, my favorite is HandBrake: http://handbrake.fr/ Good luck, -Jason --- Jason Mittell, Associate Professor of American Studies and Film & Media Culture Chair of Film & Media Culture Department Middlebury College 208 Axinn Center at Starr Library Middlebury, Vermont 05753 (802) 443-3435 / fax: (802) 443-2805 Homepage: http://seguecommunity.middlebury.edu/sites/jmittell Blog: http://justtv.wordpress.com On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 1:00 AM, SCREEN-L automatic digest system < [log in to unmask]> wrote: > 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