Answered By: Gretchen Scronce
Last Updated: May 15, 2019     Views: 56

If you are asking in regards to a video owned by the library, we try to place the public performance rights information in the library record as a local note. Otherwise one can assume PPR is not included.

Description 5 videodiscs (approx. 1276 min.) : silent and sound, black and white and color tinted : 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (76 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm)
  4 3/4 in. stamping
  digital optical
  NTSC
  video file DVD video region 1
  Motion pictures
System Details DVD, NTSC, region 1.
Local Note Includes public performance rights.

 

If you are asking in regards to showing a video in class, below is information from the College's copyright guidelines about classroom use of video and film:

Possession of a film or video does not confer the right to show the work. The copyright owner specifies, at the time of purchase or rental, the circumstances in which a film or video may be "performed". For example, videocassettes from a video rental outlet usually bear a label that specifies "Home Use Only". However, whatever their labeling or licensing, use of these media is permitted in an educational institution so long as certain conditions are met. 

Section 110 (1) of the Copyright Act of 1976 specifies that the following is permitted:

Performance or display of a work by instructors or pupils in the course of face-to- face teaching activities of a nonprofit educational institution, in a classroom or similar place devoted to instruction, unless, in the case of a motion picture or other audiovisual work, the performance, or the display of individual images is given by means of a copy that was not lawfully made...and that the person responsible for the performance knew or had reason to believe was not lawfully made.

Additional text of the Copyright Act and portions of the House Report (94-1476) combine to provide the following, more detailed list of conditions [from Virginia M. Helms, supra]:

  1. They must be shown as part of the instructional program. 
  2. They must be shown by students, instructors, or guest lecturers. 
  3. They must be shown either in a classroom or other school location devoted to instruction such as a studio, workshop, library, gymnasium,or auditorium if it is used for instruction. 
  4. They must be shown either in a face-to-face setting or where students and teacher(s) are in the same building or general area. 
  5. They must be shown only to students and educators. 
  6. They must be shown using a legitimate (that is, not illegally reproduced) copy with the copyright notice included. 

Further, the relationship between the film or video and the course must be explicit. Films or videos, even in a "face-to-face" classroom setting, may not be used for entertainment or recreation, whatever the work's intellectual content.