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克城消息
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Foreign Literature DVD Collection
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By Grace Lin-Fadel |
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Thank you for whoever made their time to attend the library's Board
of Trustee's meeting to address our concerns. I am sending my oral
statement that I presented at the library to keep whoever missed the
meeting posted. It's a great team effort that several group's members
showed up including Professional Lunch Club, Evergreen senior
citizens, Chinese Women Association and Asia In Action. The board
responded that the library had thoroughly investigated DVDs in ALL
languages to make sure they are in compliance with copyright law. Most
of Chinese DVDs have been placed back to the shelves except for 64
titles that they were still investigating since we raised the concerns
in early May. I reassured the Library that our community respected the
copyright law. We also appreciated the Library director had made so
much efforts in the past few years for creating the program in
celebrating Chinese New year at the library. I think it's good that
the board took our concerns seriously and made changes to continue to
circulate the majority of Chinese DVDs after their investigation. When
that Board room was filled with lots of Asian faces on Thursday, in
the mean time we sent a strong message that we stayed together for
concerns that affected our community. I also submitted my written
statement along with other statements from the Professional Lunch Club
and Evergreen senior citizens to the Board for their review due to the
limitation of three minutes speech was given by the Board.
Oral Statement on June 19, 2008:
I am Grace Lin-Fadel, a student from the Cleveland
State University of Foreign Language- Chinese Core program and the
Board member of Chinese Women Association; I am here today with my
classmates and Asian community leaders to address our concerns
regarding Discontinuation of DVDs from Region 3 and 6 at the Cleveland
Public Library that I raised to the Library’s Administration on May 3,
2008.
The circulation of DVDs is very important for Chinese
teachers that we use them as our text sets for visual learners and as
authentic materials for the activities in the classroom for teaching
Chinese. Especially now there are so many schools offering Chinese
language class.
They are important for our Asian community residents
who have lived here and contributed their efforts in this country.
Based on my understanding that the library
purchased original copies of DVDs but not pirated ones. The legal
reason for this has to do with the prohibition of parallel imports
under US Copyright Act (71 USC 602). According to the Library attorney
they cannot import more than one particular audiovisual work marked
with a Region 3 or Region 6 code and can only do so if it is use for
archival (not lending) purposes. In the past the Library only ordered
one copy of each title unless it’s for language learning purpose.
I have a detail written statement and attached a copy
of US copyright Act (71 USC 602) from http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap6.html
but we didn't see any prohibition of DVDs from region 3 and 6.
The perception from our Asian Community is discrimination and we need
to know why the Cleveland Public Library only restricted the
circulation of DVDs from those two regions (especially from Taiwan,
Hong Kong and China) while you are circulating DVDs with foreign
language from other countries. |
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