Educational VHS, DVD, streaming

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• September 10, 2010 @ 12:42pmLiz Barksdale says:

  Some companies like Annenberg put some content online, and people can watch streaming video for free. However, they still sell VHS an DVD copies of the same content. We have a set of old VHS tapes at my library, and I'd like to replace them with DVDs. The professors I work with say that we should be able to copy them to DVDs because it's free streaming on the Internet anyway. I don't think this is the case, but I can't find the legal explanation. Could someone tell me if there is a rule that I could apply to a case like this? Thanks.
• October 21, 2010 @ 2:50pmCOvalle says:

  You'd have to make a fair use argument. Just because it's free on the Internet doesn't necessarily mean that you can use it.

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