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Welcome to semi-uncharted territory - there is no case-law nor regulatory/statutory guidance involving a situation where an existing traditional course is moved mid-semester from in-person to online delivery. I'll be interested to see if anyone (publisher/ distributor/ creator) tries to sue some educational institution over possibly-infringing fair-use claims made during this pandemic.
tl;dr: there is a good argument to be made to say that showing Central Park 5 in your online course is an allowable use.
From a technology and bandwidth perspective, streaming the video to a computer screen and then Zooming that streamed content out to the students will take a high-bandwidth connection on the part of whomever is streaming the video. The transmission quality would probably be higher if each student asynchronously streamed and watched the video on their own.
Here is a quick gloss on the process I followed to make my recommendation:
Similar to every Copyright question, Section 107 says we have to consider four factors:
Here's where the education-related exceptions live, Copyright Sections 107 & 110:
https://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#107
https://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#110
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