Rowan-Cabarrus Community College Library's policies for obtaining public performance rights for audiovisual material used in the classrooms are:
Audiovisual materials may be used in classrooms as part of regular face-to-face classroom instruction without seeking the copyright owner's permission for performance or display. As such, the presence of a faculty member or teaching assistant is required at each class meeting/audiovisual showing in order to satisfy the "face to face" teaching exceptions contained in Section 110 of the Copyright Act.
Clubs and other groups who wish to use audiovisual materials in classrooms must first obtain public performance rights for those materials from the copyright owner, unless those rights were purchased along with the materials -- often the case with institutional purchases from educational vendors (e.g. Films for the Humanities & Sciences).
Individuals and groups can find assistance obtaining public performance rights by contacting the Library.
It is imperative to understand the difference between legal downloads and illegal file sharing. In the peer-to-peer file sharing context, downloading or uploading substantial parts of a copyrighted work without authority constitutes an infringement. Although there are exceptions under the law that allow copying or distribution of protected works, the use of peer-to-peer (P2P) software programs to download or upload copyrighted music and movies without permission of the copyright owner would virtually never qualify for an exception. Criminal and civil penalties may result from copyright violation, in addition to disciplinary action by Rowan-Cabarrus Community College if it's network is involved in the process.
P2P applications will search for and share content on your computer with others. P2P applications usually run as soon as you turn on your computer and continue to run in the background. Even if you disable uploading, many P2P programs may reset preferences to resume uploading.
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and other content owners use the same P2P software to catch file sharers sharing their protected content with others. Content owners specifically target illegal file sharing on College networks.
Search our Card Catalog to find videos housed in the Library-IC collection.
Audiovisual Search:
The information in this guide was originally created by Boston College University Libraries and has been borrowed and modified for this specific institution under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License.
This guide is designed to provide basic, general information about copyright, and does not constitute legal advice. The links to third party sites in this guide are provided for your convenience. Boston College does not take responsibility for the content of these other sites. If you have a question about a specific copyright issue not addressed by this guide, the Libraries encourage you to seek further advice.
