DEVOS -- Enterprise Video System
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Copyright Issues
It is both illegal and wrong to make copies of copyrighted material without
permission. You should follow advice of your council, but the following is provided as
a starting point:
The
(please search these terms on the
public Internet) allows for use in certain cases, especially for educational use
and especially when only portions (clips) of a copyrighted work is used. Use
the DEVOS start/end time or playlists to create clips of larger movies.
You can easily create your own content using Streamsie, and with other tools
in which case you may elect to declare a copyright. Here is the Creative
Commons web site:
http://creativecommons.org/choose/
You can generally deliver over-the-air broadcast TV (content received via an
antenna and encoded and delivered via DEVOS) without issues, provided the
viewers are in the same broadcast area. Most "Cable TV" providers allow
private distribution too in areas where you may otherwise string your own
legacy coax cable.
Use "Maximum Viewer" feature. For example, if you set the value to "1", then
only one viewer can access that content simultaneously, effectively replicating
the behavior of physical media (e.g. a disk) and demonstrating your
commitment to copyright enforcement
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The interface for commercial HDMI ports, such as Blue-Ray players and Cable
Set Top Boxes, may be encrypted (HDCP) and cannot be captured. Cameras
with HDMI are not encrypted. Analog interfaces (composite, SVideo,
Component RGB) are not encrypted. Splitters are available that may overcome
this issue.
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This is not intended as legal advice but as a description of a DEVOS feature.
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