Can a teacher go to a video store and rent a tape that says “For Home Use Only” and use it in her classroom?
YES, but there are restrictions: • Only the teacher who rented it must use the video. • It must be used in a face-to-face teaching situation, NOT for entertainment. • The video cannot be part of a public performance. Please don’t go to a video store, rent a movie for entertainment, and show it to your class on a Friday afternoon as a reward for being good all week. The use of the video MUST be part of an actual lesson. To summarize, if a teacher doesn’t know if a special license or extended rights exist, she should plan in advance the uses of a video, write the objectives into her lesson plans, and use it within 10 days of broadcast. Time for another quiz… miss Brown has a legally recorded program from a local TV channel, or a rented video. This program is a part of her lesson and is being used in a face-to-face teaching situation. She asks the Media Specialist, Miss Green, to play the program at 1:00 over the school cable system so she can see it in her classroom (there is no VCR in
