By: Danielle Schrimsher

Digital Citizenship

Fair use case studies for Video

(VHS and DVD formats)

CONVERTING VHS TO DVD

LEGAL OR NOT? Can library media specialists make

different formats just so their teachers can have options?

If so every library would have two versions of everything.

How does this contradict fair use guidelines?

WHY NOT MAKEOTHER VERSIONS?

WHAT IF THE WORK IS DETERIORATING ?

YOU CAN PROTECT THE WORK If you have a deteriorating work you can

make up to three copies, only if the work is not produced anymore. If you can purchase the work, that is the

only option you have. Once again, fair use falls back to,

making sure that the copyright holder’s rights are not being ignored. There is no way to pay for a video that is no longer being produced, so the company is not losing money.

QUESTIONS??? Remember: Your media specialist is always here to help clarify any fair use issues you may encounter.

Thanks to: Donna Yeager, Matt Hooper, Jill Titus,

and Laura Crowe for their acting www.flicker.com for our images