Licencing for recordings

[CAWJames]

Morning all,

 

We have recently purchased PlanetDV's eStream product, and have rolled it out for digital signage and dynamic screensavers so far, with the view to use it for lesson capture(amazing signage by the way).

 

We also want to start digitizing old DVD's and VHS cassettes, which brings up a licencing issue.

 

If we were dealing with broadcast and loads of recordings etc, it would be ERA, but at 90p to £2.50 a head for the license, this is way out of budget. Is there any other licencing that would cover us for internal use of purchased recordings?

 

Thanks

 

James

[Andrew_C]

For use of recordings, it isn't ERA you need. It would be MCPS.

 

You must have ERA to have legally recorded any "off air" programmes. SO...

 

You have just entered a minefield, wait for the explosions!

[CAWJames]

These would mostly be commercially available DVD and old VHS's not necessarily recording we have made...

[Cache]

ERA is purchased by the DfE centrally now - are you sure you need to buy it seperately?

 

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/copyright-licences-information-for-schools

 

Have a glance through Copyright & Schools: photocopy, scan, screen or broadcast copyright resources in classrooms - simple advice for teachers - it might help.

[CAWJames]

Unfortunately we are a private FE college