The U.S. Copyright Office has heard the muttered curses of film and media faculty juggling DVDs as they search for relevant clips, and has decreed that media studies professors may, under certain conditions, be exempted from the restrictions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act--which make it illegal to reproduce copyrighted material from DVDs.
Yes, even short excerpts for use in classes. What's that? You had no idea taking clips from DVDs was illegal?????
Well, now it is officially ok, thanks to three professors from the University of Pennsylvania who asked for an academic exemption to the law. Thanks, guys
This article, "Professors and Librarians Win Narrow
Exemptions to Rules in Digital Copyright Act" is available
online at this address, but only for a few more days, so read fast!
http://chronicle.com/temp/email2.php?id=ndCDhkKSRPQvYZh6GpnYZmqMSG2gMZyq
Comments (1)
The Library has online access to the Chronicle, so you can still read this article! Ask at the reference desk and a librarian can log you in to the site.
Posted by Erica | March 6, 2007 4:48 PM
Posted on March 6, 2007 16:48