The act of digitizing a DVD violates the copyright protection on the DVD (unless purchase of the device grants you that provision - and it doesn't usually).

Even if you are limiting it to a single user, you did not purchase a digital copy of the movie so giving teacher access to a digital copy is a violation.

I would love for this to work - but we did not put any videos on this server because of the copyright violation aspect.  When we asked DEVOS about this they said, "We just provide the hardware to make this happen.  What you do with it is up to you."

If there's a better legal answer, I don't yet know what it is.

On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 11:56 AM, Barbara Lyons <lyonsb@wiltonps.org> wrote:
Good morning all- I am reaching out to find other schools who are using the Wallingford, CT Discovery DEVOS Video Server and Streamsie Encoder.
Our district has a contract with the company, and we are being told that we may legally upload our DVD collection to the server in order to stream (there is the capability, we are told, to limit viewing to one classroom at a time, which should "satisfy fair use requirements").

We are skeptical, and wondering if anyone out there has had this experience.  TIA! -Barb Lyons

p.s there are other services out there, such a PLEX media server:
"Plex allows you to aggregate all your personal media and access it anywhere you go. Enjoy your own media on all your devices with the Plex Media Server."  I contacted them and received this response:
"we have many schools using Plex!. The only thing that you need to be clear on is that we don't know what you will be storing/streaming -- so, it is up to you to make sure have the rights to do so (being a library, though, my guess is that you have a pretty good idea what rights you have!)."
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Wilton High School
 
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