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Fair Use for the Classroom and Course Reserves

DVDs and Streaming

The use of film and videos from the Library's collections is allowed in the classroom, in the viewing room in the lower level of the Morris Library, and can be linked and/or embedded in your Canvas course shell. For more information see https://library.udel.edu/filmandvideo/media-copyright-in-a-nutshell/ . Please contact the Film & Video Librarian if you have questions. In Canvas, You can also link out to content on YouTube and Vimeo, however, not all content on these platforms is free of copyright restrictions. Please do your due diligence.

Public Performance Rights

The Film & Video Collection is not able to grant permissions to digitize, stream, cablecast or give public performances of moving image materials that have been purchased by the University of Delaware Library. All such rights are the property of the copyright owner(s).  The Library is granted public performance rights at the time of purchase for some materials; this information is included in the item’s DELCAT record notes field as “Includes public performance rights”.  These materials may be shown to a non-classroom audience without additional permissions provided attendees are not required to pay admission.