[CALIBK12] Copyright

[George Pilling]

The copyright guidelines, which are only guidelines and are not law, allow
up to 10% or 3 minutes, whichever is less, of a film to be used in a
student presentation. For music it is 10% or 30 seconds.
If you have time to ask for permission, ask.
If you wish to make it legal, purchase a site license from www.Movlic.com -
that will allow you to use most popular films with limited public
performance rights (the exception is High School Musical because the music
licensing is complicated) A site license costs between $300 and $600 per
year, last time I checked.
 
Some popular films and many educational films can be purchased with limited
public performance rights. 
 
 

George Pilling

1535 S. Grant St.

Visalia CA 93277

www.storysales.com <http://www.storysales.com/>  

 

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From: calibk12-bounces at lists.sjsu.edu
[mailto:calibk12-bounces at lists.sjsu.edu] On Behalf Of Helen Murdoch
Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 4:51 PM
To: CALIB List
Subject: [CALIBK12] Copyright


Our social studies just held a fairly successful Social Studies film
festival of student made films. I assumed that meant the students filmed
themselves acting out history. Turns out some used clips from documentaries
and hollywood films. The student products were shown to the public and
students, free admission, after school. 


I started to question the copyright infringement of using clips without
permission. Any input from anyone in the know?

Helen Murdoch
Teacher Librarian
San Marcos High School
4750 Hollister Avenue
Santa Barbara, CA 93110
805-967-4581 x232

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