[Yr11 Information Technology] Future Focus - Biometrics (SBS)

[Greyruin]

Hang on, hang on - - -
Isn't there a statute in there about showing the video for educational 
purposes? I checked with the cinema copyright folk in Canberra, because 
my school was illegally showing videos for "activities" at the end of 
the year, and I wanted to know how much it would cost us to do it 
legally. They gave me a really good price on bulk permission rates for 
non-educational viewing in a school, then gave me an even better price 
(Roughly $250 for ten titles over three days). He told me that we could 
show commercial videos as often as we liked *in the classroom* provided 
only the students and teacher were in attendance and that the film was 
definitely part of a bona fide lesson plan. He also suggested, with 
tongue in cheek, I'm sure, that we hand out a questionnaire at the end 
of each end-of-year activity session, call it "educational" and avoid 
the fee altogether!

I imagine that videos or DVD content recorded from live TV would have 
the same exemption attached to them. You would still be in the domain of 
"fair dealing" if you watched the program on your own, at home, in order 
to prepare your lesson. No need to destroy the recording, the media or 
yourself. I'm sure that the "watch it once and destroy it" provision 
applies only to a program watched by "time displacement" for 
entertainment purposes.

Happy dreams - (and, no, my clock is NOT set wrong)
Good night

Greg Durkin