Can teachers play DVDs they have purchased overseas from different DVD zones?
Assuming the agreement under which the DVD was purchased imposes no contractual limitations to the contrary, teachers don’t need permission to play DVDs in class. This is the case whether they purchased the DVD in Australia or overseas. In many cases, DVDs are region-coded for playing only in particular countries or groups of countries. Teachers can nevertheless play the DVDs in a multi-region player, or re-set the region coding (we understand this can sometimes be done via the remote control) or they may have the region-code control in the DVD player modified so it plays DVDs from relevant regions.
