[LM_NET] TARGET: Teach With Movies

[Shonda Brisco <sbrisco@GMAIL.COM>]

As I am covering "fair use" and the use of movies in the classroom, I
find the site:  Teach With Movies which specifically states that
educators can use rented or purchased movies to instruct in the
classroom without a public performance license.

http://www.teachwithmovies.org/copyright.html

This opens a Pandora's Box because even a world history instructor
asked today if he might be able to use his Disney version of
"Hercules" to show his high school students....

I find this website interesting since I know that Disney would not
allow the use of their movies in the classroom, regardless of the
lesson being presented.  (Luckily, my teacher did not show the film.)

How are / would others interpret this site and explain it to their
faculty when they find it?

I'll post a HIT if others are interested.

Thanks!

~Shonda

-- 
Shonda Brisco, MLIS
District Librarian
Peaster ISD
Weatherford, TX 76086

Digital Bookends wiki / blog:
http://digitalbookends.pbwiki.com
http://shonda.edublogs.org/
sbrisco@gmail.com

Resources for Texas School Librarians:
http://txschoollibrarians.ning.com/
http://txschoollibrarians.wikispaces.com/

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