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Federal Guidelines for Off-Air Recording of Broadcast Programming
for Educational Purposes
1. The guidelines were developed to apply only to off-air recordings
by non-profit educational institutions.
2. A broadcast program may be recorded off-air simultaneously with
broadcast transmission (including simultaneous cable retransmission)
and retained by a non-profit educational institution for a period
not to exceed the first forty-five consecutive calendar days after
date of recording. Upon conclusion of such retention period, all
off-air recordings must be erased or destroyed immediately. "Broadcast
programs" are televised programs transmitted by television
stations for reception by the general public without charge.
3. Off-air recordings may be used once by individual teachers in
the course of relevant teaching activities, and repeated once only
when instructional reinforcement is necessary, in classrooms and
similar places devoted to instruction within a single building,
cluster or campus, as well as in the homes of students receiving
formalized home instruction, during the first ten (10) consecutive
school days in the forty-five (45) calendar day retention period.
"School days" are school session days, not counting weekends,
holidays, vacations, examination periods, and other scheduled interruptions-within
the forty-five (45) calendar retention period.
4. Off-air recordings may be made only at the request of and used
by individual teachers, and may not be regularly recorded in anticipation
of requests. No broadcast program may be recorded off-air more than
once for the same teacher, regardless of the number of times the
program may be broadcast.
5. A limited number of copies may be reproduced from each off-air
recording to meet the legitimate needs of teachers under these guidelines.
Each such copy shall be subject to all provisions governing the
original recording.
6. After the first ten (10) consecutive school days, off-air recordings
may be used up to the end of the forty-five (45) calendar day retention
period only for teacher evaluation purposes, ie., to determine whether
or not to include the broadcast program in the teaching curriculum,
and may not be used in the recording institution for student exhibition
or any other non-evaluation purpose without authorization.
7. Off-air recordings need not be used in their entirety but the
recorded program may not be altered from their original content.
Off- air recordings may not be physically or electronically combined
or merged to constitute teaching anthologies or compilations.
8. All copies of off-air recordings must include the copyright
notices on the broadcast program as recorded.
9. Educational institutions are expected to establish appropriate
control procedures to maintain the integrity of these guidelines.
Published in the October 14, 1981 Congressional Record, pp. E4750-E4752.
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