<div dir="ltr">A similar topic came up in my district.<div>I wrote to Carrie Russell from the American Library Association for clarification.</div><div>I am including her response below.</div><div>Please note her response includes 1) that she cannot give legal advice and 2) that we as school librarians should be contacting lawmakers to try to update the 'fair use' portion of the copyright law to include streaming services.</div><div><br></div><div>In any case, we need to be reminding teachers that 'fair use' guidelines include the restriction that showing of the copyrighted films/content has to be in conjunction with face-to-face instruction (i.e. part of a lesson). </div><div><br></div><div>--Kathy Lester</div><div>AASL Region 3 Director</div><div><br></div><div>Carrie's Response</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Lucida Sans",sans-serif"><i>You are correct that according to the license agreement these titles should not be used for streaming in classrooms. There is no license that libraries can buy at this time that would allow them to exercise all of the exceptions to copyright which includes the face to face teaching exception.<u></u><u></u></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Lucida Sans",sans-serif"><i><u></u> <u></u></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Lucida Sans",sans-serif"><i>If you go ahead and use the movie anyway, you would be breaking the license agreement which is a violation of contract law and not copyright law. Penalties are much lower (much lower!!). I don’t know of anyone who has been taken to court about this – state or federal. So the risk is low. It is likely that the rights holders do not care.<u></u><u></u></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Lucida Sans",sans-serif"><i><u></u> <u></u></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Lucida Sans",sans-serif"><i>One option is to ignore the license and go ahead and use the movies because again you are unable to buy a copy for school use. Of course, that sets a bad example because technically it is wrong. One thing you could do is write a letter to Netflix, Disney etc and tell them that you are going to go ahead and use the movies for classroom use, and that if they don’t reply you can assume that doing this is fine. (Of course, they won’t reply to you). This is a way to show you have good faith in negotiating with them, but since Netflix is the only company who has the movie that you need and you are unable to buy or pay a permission fee, you are telling them up front. Keep a copy of your correspondence. Remember to tell them that you are not using the movies for profit purposes.<u></u><u></u></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Lucida Sans",sans-serif"><i><u></u> <u></u></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Lucida Sans",sans-serif"><i>On Home Use videos. The reason why we could say that home use only videos could be used in the classroom was because no one thought that a label “home use only” was a license agreement. The video was governed by copyright law so exceptions applied. Now we are dealing with non-negotiated licenses that courts have said are legally binding.<u></u><u></u></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Lucida Sans",sans-serif"><i><u></u> <u></u></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Lucida Sans",sans-serif"><i>My advice to you (and I mean this seriously) is to tell your state representative or congressional representative that you are having this problem. Law makers listen to constituents and I believe if constituents bring this issue to the attention of lawmakers across the country, something could be done about it – even a legislative fix of some kind. What is happening now with these streaming services is the elimination of user rights that Congress included in the copyright law. Congress knows libraries and educational institutions need allowances. Here we are in a situation of “market failure” – we want to pay for the use but the market does not provide it. Market failure is an indication that the copyright law is not working because it is too difficult or impossible to make a transaction.<u></u><u></u></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Lucida Sans",sans-serif"><i><u></u> <u></u></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Lucida Sans",sans-serif"><i>My dream is to see hundreds of school and academic librarians and educators as constituents reach out to their legislators. I think it would be helpful to have a movement!<u></u><u></u></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Lucida Sans",sans-serif"><i><u></u> <u></u></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Lucida Sans",sans-serif"><i>Of course, that does not solve your problem now. If I were in your position, I would send a letter to the networks as suggested above, and then go ahead and use the movies. I cannot give you legal advice, and an attorney would probably say, “too bad, you cannot use these movies,” and that would be the end of it. </i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Lucida Sans",sans-serif"><i><br></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Lucida Sans",sans-serif"><i><br></i></span></p><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Kathy Lester, MLIS, MA<br><span style="font-size:12.8px"><i>Advocacy Chair, Past-President 2014</i></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Michigan Association for Media in Education (MAME)</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><i>Region 3 Director</i></span></div><div>American Association of School Librarians (AASL)</div><div><i style="font-size:12.8px">School Library Media Specialist / Technology Coach</i><br></div><div><i style="font-size:12.8px">SL21 Model Library, 2017-2018</i></div><div dir="ltr"><i style="font-size:12.8px">SL21 Exemplary Ranking - Michigan School Libraries for the 21st Century 2019-2022</i><i><br></i><div>East Middle School, Plymouth-Canton Schools</div><div><i>ISTE Making IT Happen Award Winner</i></div><div><i>2017 MAME Michigan School Library Program of the Year</i></div><div><i style="font-size:12.8px">2012 </i><i style="font-size:12.8px">State Librarian's Excellence Award Winner</i><br></div><div><span> <a href="mailto:kathyL@mimame.org" target="_blank">kathyL@mimame.org</a></span></div><div>twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/LibraryL" target="_blank">@LibraryL</a></div><div><span>810.333.5873</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 2:56 PM Breanna Gober via AISLE <<a href="mailto:aisle@list.railslibraries.info">aisle@list.railslibraries.info</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hello, everyone! We are starting a task force at my school to address copyright concerns from our technology department about streaming videos. They have blocked streaming services from our teachers, and we are now trying to determine what is acceptable use. What experience/information do you guys have regarding copyright and streaming that I would be able to share with our task force?<div><br></div><div>Thanks in advance!</div><div><br></div><div>Breezy Gober</div><div><br></div><div>Library Media Specialist</div><div>Mascoutah High School<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><b>Currently Reading</b><br></div><div> <img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41BLozITYdL._SX329_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg" alt="Image result for #murdertrending book cover"" width="63" height="96"> </div><br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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