As we learn more about copyright and our responsibility here at NMC to be in compliance, Educational Media Technologies has been working to develop our process of how copyright videos are used in courses. Because use of online materials falls under the TEACH Act, we would like to continue to strive to be in compliance see the following guidelines:

TEACH Act: Favored Uses

• Performances of nondramatic literary works.
• Performances of nondramatic music works.
• Performances of any other work, including dramatic works and audiovisual works, BUT ONLY in “reasonable and limited portions.”
• Displays of any work “in an amount comparable to that which is typically displayed in the course of a live classroom session.”

If you use copyright videos in your course(s) we would like to work with you, utilizing Ensemble’s new Trim feature, on “trimming/clipping” or pairing down the amount of each video being used (as opposed to entire videos). Creating the clips is easy and allows us to be copyright compliant.

Once clips are made of the videos you are using, they will be available to you in your Ensemble library. In addition, by trimming videos down to what is essential to your lesson, you can make the trimmed portion available longer than the current 7 days.

Please contact  Michelle Autry at mautry@nmc.edu or 5-1075  to set up an appointment to go through your videos to make sure we are following copyright guidelines.