[MLA-L] FW: video copyright-- In house Dance videos and others--

Date: 9 May 2003 11:59:15 -0700
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video copyrightHi, I'm forwarding this to the MLA-L list as I'm sure this
issue is of concern to many of us who have Performing Arts collections, or
even just a few dance videos in our music collections.
Kathleen Haefliger -- Liaison to the Dance Librarians
-----Original Message-----
From: DLDG-L Dance Librarians Discussion Group [mailto:email-address-deleted]On
Behalf Of Pamela Harris
Sent: Friday, May 09, 2003 3:56 PM
To: email-address-deleted
Subject: video copyright
RE: Concerns surrounding Dance Videos, Copyright, & Preservation in small
institutions
Swarthmore College is an undergraduate institution with approximately 1400
students. We have a Dance Department that offers a dance major and a
library collection to support undergraduate research. Our dance collection
has a large video collection, 50% of which is college sponsored and produced
performances, 50% of which is commercially purchased VHS/DVD.
I am looking for similar undergraduate institutions who share the same
concerns for their video collection, ie. preservation and copyright. Do any
of you have collection/video development policies that address preservation
and copyright needs?
We are at the point of considering a retrospective conversion of high
priority/high use VHS titles to DVD. Are any of you considering this? We
also are concerned about the degradation of our collection when older VHS
titles deteriorate and are not available for purchase (are unique or 'out of
print'). Can we make DVD copies of commercially owned VHS materials for
archival purposes?
Larger institutions will have larger departments and budgets to handle these
kinds of issues, however colleges must be more conservative and creative
with their limited resources. I would like to hear from anyone who is
interested in these issues. Please respond directly to me and I can post
for the list. I am especially interested to hear from you if you have these
concerns but have not addressed them formally yet!!
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