[aisle] Copyright and movies during Remote Learning

[Pippin, Elizabeth]

Someone else might have a different experience but my understanding is that this is a highly complex situation. Mainly it somewhat comes down to how was this teacher planning on sharing this film? Are they streaming it from a personal account such as Netflix or Hulu? If so the answer is that it would be violating copyright. One way around that would be for the teacher to say we are going to be discussing this movie watch it and here are some ways to access it. However, even with that option there is an assumption that all students will be able to access the film.
As I mentioned, someone else might have a better understanding, but overall my understanding is that streaming a video online for a class has a very narrow window of what allows it to be legal.

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Subject: [aisle] Copyright and movies during Remote Learning

Copyright isn't my strongest area, unfortunately, and I'm hoping for thoughts on this one.

We run a Media Analysis class where the teacher has shown movies to his class. The principal has judged this fair use, and whether it is or not I've stayed out of it. But now they want to know about posting movies in their Google classroom. Would this be fair use also? We do not have a public performance license anymore as the district decided it was unnecessary.  I'm not sure if a digital classroom is a public performance though.

Gail Meyer, Librarian
TF South High School, Lansing, IL
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