OFF-AIR RECORDING AND SATELLITE RECEIVER USE POLICIES

The Satellite receivers are used to tape a variety of educational programming. They are the primary sources of programming for foreign language broadcasts as well as other curriculum-based programs.
Programming that requires off-air recording licenses are obtained by this Department. With licensing permits, tapes can be made and kept as a permanent addition to the Media video collection and continuously used in classroom instruction in compliance with copyright laws.
In compliance with off-air recording copyright guidelines, Media Services applies the following guidelines when NOT obtaining licensing permits for taping off-air recordings by nonprofit educational institutions:
1. Videotapes made may be kept only for 45 calendar days after the recording date and then erased.
2. The videotape may be shown to students only during the first 10 school days after the recording date. It may be repeated once for reinforcement or evaluation purposes only.
3. Off-air recordings may be made only at the request of an individual instructor and not in anticipation of a professor’s request.
4. The same professor can request the program be recorded only once.
5. If several professors request the same program, duplicate copies may be made.
6. Off-air recordings may NOT be edited or combined with other recordings to create an anthology or a new work.
7. All copies of the recording must contain a notice of copyright as a broadcast.
8. Programs that are taped must have a direct relationship to the curriculum of the faculty member who requests such taping.