No subject

That allows any school employee to use timeshifted TV for any purpose.

Without that licence paid, all you're allowed to do is watch live tv as
its broadcast, and to play commercially purchased recordings.


The actual hardware you might use is irrelevant if you're not allowed to
use it.




Nick Rout wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 9:55 AM, Blazy Babe<blaze.trademe at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> Hi Everyone
>>
>> I have been on this list now for a month and reading all the
>> submissions, which are interesting.  I have not yet started playing
>> with the hardware/software yet.
>>
>> I am the IT Manager at a small secondary school which has a skybox. I
>> am wanting to record shows and also stream over the network.
>>
>> Would anyone have suggestions in regards to use in a school network?
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Blaze
>
> Firstly, when you make a new thread, don't try to do it by replying to
> an exiting message. Please start a new message to the list address
> with a relevant subject line.
>
> Secondly please trim your post, you left in an entire digest post at
> the end of yours which was completely irrelevant.
>
> Now, as to the question: I would have to say that there are copyright
> issues. I know this can be a problem in schools, they want to freely
> photocopy and play relevant educational material even when its not
> strictly legal to do so.
>
> s 84 of the Copyright Act 1994 says (the example is part of the section):
>
> 84  Recording for purposes of time shifting
>
>       (1) A person (A) does not infringe copyright in a programme
> included in a communication work, or in any work included in it, by
> recording it, if—
>
>             (a) A makes the recording solely for A’s personal use or
> the personal use of a member of the household in which A lives or
> both; and
>
>             (b) A makes the recording solely for the purpose of
> viewing or listening to the recording at a more convenient time; and
>
>             (c) the recording is not made from an on-demand service; and
>
>             (d) A has lawful access to the communication work at the
> time of making the recording.
>
>       (2) However, subsection (1) does not apply, and A does infringe
> copyright in the communication work recorded and in any work included
> in the communication work, if—
>
>            (a) A retains the recording for any longer than is
> reasonably necessary for viewing or listening to the recording at a
> more convenient time; or
>
>             (b) in the event that the person who views or listens to
> the recording wishes to make a complaint to a complaint authority, A
> retains the recording for any longer than is reasonably necessary to
> prepare and despatch the complaint.
>
>       (3) If a person infringes copyright under subsection (2), the
> recording is treated as an infringing copy.
>
> Example
>
> A records a movie to be screened on television because she will be at
> work when it screens. She watches the movie on the weekend and then
> later tapes over it. Provided the conditions in s 84(1) are met, the
> copy that A makes is not an infringing copy.
>
> B copies music from a streamed Internet audio service and keeps the
> copy as part of B’s music collection, in order to listen to it
> multiple times on demand. Copies made for the home library or
> collection in this way are infringing copies.
>
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