Faculty Handbook         Section V
General University Policies
A.
Aids Policy		   B.
Photocopying for Classroom, Research, and Library Reserve Use		   D.
Policy Regarding Patents and Copyrights		   E.
Sunset Review of Organized Research and Service Units
F.
Policy on Closing Due to Extreme Weather Conditions		   G.
Policy on Drug-Free Workplaces		   H.
Free Speeech Policy		   I.
Policy on Sexual Harassment and Consensual Relationships		   J.
Scholarly Misconduct: Policy and Procedures
K.
Summary of Faculty Search Guidelines		   L.
University Policy Statement on Diversity		   M.
Procurement of Printing and Copying		   N.
University Publications Policy		   O.
Development		   P.
Computing Security

C.    Policy on Playback of Off-Air Video Recordings in the Media Library and in Classrooms.

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Off-air video recordings sometimes may be selected for use in teaching. However, not all off-air recordings, in the terms of the Copyright Act of 1979 and subsequent court decisions, may legally be used in teaching. Only those recordings that have an exception in the law, or that are licensed for use in teaching, may be shown in whole or in part in such public settings as a library or classroom.

The following off-air recordings may be shown in good faith:

1.    Hard news programs (but not including magazine-format programs such as Sixty Minutes, which may be shown legally only as described below).

2.    Broadcast programs, cablecasts or satellite-casts for which the libraries through the Media Library, or some department of the university, has obtained or is in the process of obtaining a license. Contact the Media Library to write for permission or to investigate purchase of a license.

3.    Broadcast programs, cablecasts or satellite-casts that were aired within the two previous weeks. (After two weeks the item may be viewed privately for four weeks in order to evaluate the purchase.)

Since the Media Library has a contract with the Television Licensing Center to follow the guidelines for Off-Air Taping, the essential provisions of which are noted above, whenever video tapes are brought into the Media Library for showing, the staff is obligated to determine whether the tapes being requested for use are lawfully made copies and to permit only lawfully made copies to be used in its facilities.

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