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FIRE SERVICE AND GENERAL FIRE SAFETY TOPICS => Fire Safety => Topic started by: nearlythere on February 05, 2009, 01:49:47 PM

Title: DVD Copyright.
Post by: nearlythere on February 05, 2009, 01:49:47 PM

Anyone up to speed with copyright issues with regard to using original DVDs for training purposes?

Title: Re: DVD Copyright.
Post by: afterburner on February 05, 2009, 02:54:39 PM

Copyright belongs to the creator of the DVD. It does not have to be marked as copyright.
Therefore use of the DVD for any purpose needs permission from the copyright owner. If you have bought the DVD was it sold as training material? Or were you given a copy of original material with no permissions attached?

Title: Re: DVD Copyright.
Post by: nearlythere on February 05, 2009, 03:31:02 PM

Quote from: afterburner on February 05, 2009, 02:54:39 PM

Copyright belongs to the creator of the DVD. It does not have to be marked as copyright.
Therefore use of the DVD for any purpose needs permission from the copyright owner. If you have bought the DVD was it sold as training material? Or were you given a copy of original material with no permissions attached?

I bought the DVD off a legit website as a training aid.

Title: Re: DVD Copyright.
Post by: Thomas Brookes on February 05, 2009, 07:43:29 PM

You need to read the small printon the video and case and possibly whats on the tape (normally some sort of copyright information).

Title: Re: DVD Copyright.
Post by: afterburner on February 06, 2009, 07:14:35 AM

'morning Nearly,

If bought as a training aid the normal copyright permissions allow you to do just that, show the DVD to a group undergoing training. You are not allowed (normally) to copy the DVD so they can have a post training reference copy, nor are you (agian normally) allowed to 'broadcast' the contents of the DVD. Lastly copying a wee bit of the DVD and plonking that in another presentation also breaks the copyright.

if however your DVD contains the expression 'copyright free' you can do what you like.

Title: Re: DVD Copyright.
Post by: nearlythere on February 06, 2009, 08:27:48 AM

Quote from: afterburner on February 06, 2009, 07:14:35 AM

'morning Nearly,

If bought as a training aid the normal copyright permissions allow you to do just that, show the DVD to a group undergoing training. You are not allowed (normally) to copy the DVD so they can have a post training reference copy, nor are you (agian normally) allowed to 'broadcast' the contents of the DVD. Lastly copying a wee bit of the DVD and plonking that in another presentation also breaks the copyright.

if however your DVD contains the expression 'copyright free' you can do what you like.

I take it then that I could link to the DVD in a presentation so that I am not copying it?

Title: Re: DVD Copyright.
Post by: afterburner on February 06, 2009, 08:53:28 AM

yes, you have not done anything to the DVD except play it for an 'allowed' purpose.

Title: Re: DVD Copyright.
Post by: nearlythere on February 06, 2009, 09:37:35 AM

Quote from: afterburner on February 06, 2009, 08:53:28 AM

yes, you have not done anything to the DVD except play it for an 'allowed' purpose.

Thanks AB.

Title: Re: DVD Copyright.
Post by: TallyHo on February 06, 2009, 09:24:17 PM

What about using clips of youtube as training aids?

Personally I can't see a problem with it as we are not copying any of the content and trying to sell it on, but the IT geeks at work are not happy with using any clips as training aids.

Title: Re: DVD Copyright.
Post by: afterburner on February 09, 2009, 07:51:50 AM

Davey

the clips you mention are downloaded (copied) from a cyber source. Doesn't matter that's it floating around out there ready to be grabbed by anyone, the original creator own the copyright. Unless the original copyright owner releases the content as 'copyright free', any downlaods are breaches of copyright. It's the process of copying that is the offence. Selling it on is another offence.

which is where the music/ film studios are comig from in this regard.

Oh, passing thought, copyright lasts for 70 years. Hard to imagine any cyber-clips being copyright free due to end of copyright.