Lauren,

YMMV on the legal policies (were it that we all had copyright offices at our institutions!), but as far as delivery goes, establishing a local Plex server allows for restricted, targeted access to media on smart devices (for classrooms) and mobile devices (for students) without the (FERPA) hassle of housing student/institutional data. You would simply be green-lighting access to the server from individual Plex accounts. You can (if needed) embed links into the LMS without actually embedding the movie in the LMS (which I assume no one is allowed to do, anyway).

doug

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On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 6:00 PM LAUREN B ROSEN YEAZEL (via llti list) <llti@lists.iallt.org> wrote:
Hi,

I realize that we aren’t lawyers but I’m wondering what the general thoughts in the field are about copyright and sharing videos in blended and online courses. I’m finding that around our state there are different rules on different campuses. If an instructor is teaching a film class and students need to watch complete movies some campuses find it OK to do this as long as the films are behind the protection of a CMS login. Other campuses are not. On some campuses it is OK to show the film during class across a classroom-based videoconferencing network where students as a group in a classroom on multiple campuses are able to see the film at the same time.

What does your campus agree to be the legal policy around this? As more courses are shared across institutions how do you show/share full-length films with your students? These are not films that are available on Netflix, they are films from other countries that have been purchased by an institution and previously made available locally to students in the language lab and/or local classroom viewing.

I appreciate your thoughts on this.

Lauren


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