Torrent Legality

[blindpet]

Any records of a teacher actually getting punished by copyright authorities?

[3s-gtech]

Torrent - not a chance. Anything outside of the original usage terms of the media will be forbidden. In a professional capacity you can't risk anything like this.

[GrumbleDook]

Copyright & Schools: photocopy, scan, screen or broadcast copyright resources in classrooms - simple advice for teachers gives exact advice about what can be done, where, when and how it can be used.

[GrumbleDook]

Oh, and you can go to Intellectual Property Office - Changes to copyright law and guidance for the list of new and updated exceptions

[plexer]

The other thing you have to watch for is how long the bbc for example is the rights holder this may only be for a certain amount of time or only cover certain transmission methods which is why sometimes shows disappear from on demand services after a while.

 

Ben

[Gongalong]

Copyright & Schools: photocopy, scan, screen or broadcast copyright resources in classrooms - simple advice for teachers gives exact advice about what can be done, where, when and how it can be used.

Nice simple site, which I guess it has to be. It doesn't address my specific case, as for TV it says "Use of programmes or clips from recordings originally made from television or radio broadcasts" but isn't clear enough in my opinion about the mechanism of recording/obtaining those clips.

[LeMarchand]

Nice simple site, which I guess it has to be. It doesn't address my specific case, as for TV it says "Use of programmes or clips from recordings originally made from television or radio broadcasts" but isn't clear enough in my opinion about the mechanism of recording/obtaining those clips.

 

Torrenting would definitely be a no-no as you would be uploading at the same time as downloading. IANAL.

[GrumbleDook]

Nice simple site, which I guess it has to be. It doesn't address my specific case, as for TV it says "Use of programmes or clips from recordings originally made from television or radio broadcasts" but isn't clear enough in my opinion about the mechanism of recording/obtaining those clips.

 

Remember that you *have* to have completed due diligence when sourcing any works ... and if you are not sure where it came from then you *cannot* use it.

[Gongalong]

On a related note: student rips YouTube video to an MP3 to use in ICT coursework (original YouTube video was placed by the artist on the site). Legal?

[GrumbleDook]

On a related note: student rips YouTube video to an MP3 to use in ICT coursework (original YouTube video was placed by the artist on the site). Legal?

 

Published on YouTube with a specific contract and accessed in accordance with YouTube T&Cs, not via a free to air broadcaster.

 

Not originally owned by the student so no rights to media shift. Exception rights to use the track may be fine but it fails on ensuring right to use from original source.

[LeMarchand]

On a related note: student rips YouTube video to an MP3 to use in ICT coursework (original YouTube video was placed by the artist on the site). Legal?

 

Surely both not from an "allowed source":

Sourcing of music

 

Please note the following guidelines on the use of electronic formats of music. The following sources can be used

 

Legally purchased downloads on condition that the usage complies with the Digital Rights Management (DRM) rules accompanying the download. For example, if the download is restricted to being held and played back from a specific PC or MP3 player, the public performance has to be sourced from that PC or MP3 player. If the download rules allow the track to be burned to a CD, that CD can then be used for public performance in the same way as any conventional commercial CD.

Licensed streamed non-interactive internet radio services (this would include the Internet broadcasts of licensed commercial radio stations such as Capital, XFM etc, as well as internet-only radio services that have the correct licences in place).

 

and a violation of YouTube's T&C? (5.1)?

[Gongalong]

Well this is an artist's Vevo channel, or something along those lines. So the artist has clearly given permission for the video to be there.

 

I'm guessing the ripping of the video, specifically the audio track in this case, is the illegal bit?

 

Looking for some ammunition for a discussion about this.

[LeMarchand]

Well this is an artist's Vevo channel, or something along those lines. So the artist has clearly given permission for the video to be there.

 

True, but they didn't give permission for people to rip the audio! In fact, they probably look at it as an advert that they hope will encourage people to PAY for the music. How else can they afford that new house/car/kilo of cocaine*?

 

*Obvious stereotyping, for all I know it could be a track from a small artist that can barely pay his/her bills.

[Gongalong]

I'm sure there's a T's & C's breach there somewhere. Quite a few articles on a battle between Google and some of these audio ripping sites.

[LeMarchand]

I'm sure there's a T's & C's breach there somewhere. Quite a few articles on a battle between Google and some of these audio ripping sites.

 

Definitely!

you agree not to distribute any part of or parts of the Website or the Service, including but not limited to any Content, in any medium without YouTube's prior written authorisation, unless YouTube makes available the means for such distribution through functionality offered by the Service (such as the YouTube Player)

 

Of course, it's all somewhat ironic given that YouTube must be the net's largest repository of copyright flouting outside of torrents. At least Google seem to have stopped supplying "YouTube Downloader" extensions for Chrome via the official channel.