I'm in the last stages of backing up 20 different Educational Tapes for an older gentleman at my employer. Neither of us are being paid for this service.
3 of the 20 videos are made by NUS TRAINING CORPORATION. This is where things get tricky.
I would like to put all 20 videos on the company shared drive so that older employees could watch them to refresh their memory on subjects without fear of punishment for "not already knowing" or "forgetting."
This should be fine for the 17 in house videos.
The 3 NUS Training Corporation videos are the problem.
I've having trouble determining if NUS is still around. I've find things like:
http://www.corporationwiki.com/p/hlh...ng-corporation
http://www.missouricorps.com/corp/1044525.html
I'm not a legal expert, but it looks like the name has expired and they no longer have website.
Also, assuming the company is still around, where does this fall in Fair Use? No one is making money off of the tapes. This is purely for education and preservation.
I would think the problem would be the argument is that by putting them on the shared drive, we are making copies.
Would it be ok to keep just 1 digital copy in the training room for preservation, and not put it on the shared drive?
Any feedback is appreciated. I'd really like to do the right thing and help as many people as possible at work learn if they have the desire.