http://www.copyright.gov/1201/ http://www.copyright.gov/1201/ Looks like it's more than just education and criticism: > (i) Educational uses by college and u

http://www.copyright.gov/1201/ http://www.copyright.gov/1201/ Looks like it's more than just education and criticism: > (i) Educational uses by college and university professors and by college and university film and media studies students; > (ii) Documentary filmmaking; > (iii) Noncommercial videos. Looks like so long as you're looking to use a clip, and your use would qualify as fair use, you can rip a DVD. That can't be what the librarian meant to write though, that would actually encourage people to make backups and then further copy a fair use bit into a different work.