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>Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 08:31:37 -0800 (PST)
>From: Joseph Kautz <[log in to unmask]>
>To: LLTI-Editor <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: The Teach Act - Good news for Lang Tech users


The March 28, 2003 Chronicle of Higher Education had a nice article about
the recently signed "Technology Education and Copyright Harmonization Act"
http://chronicle.com/free/v49/i29/29a02901.htm

It is a step in the right direction and still seems to be ambiguous enough
to allow for liberal interpretations.

**The article includes a copyright checklist for online courses.

The Univ. of Indianapolis has written a paper about what can be done
under the teach act. (chron 4/28/03, p. A30) at

http://www.ala.org/washoff/teach.html

North Carolina State Univ. has posted guidelines for the Teach Act
(chron. 4/28/03 p A30) at

http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/scc/legislative/teachkit/

Joseph K - Stanford

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Joseph Kautz
Director, Stanford Digital Language Lab
tel (650) 725-1615

"The primary objective of copyright is not to reward the labor of
authors, but "[t]o promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts."
To this end, copyright assures authors the right to their original
expression, but encourages others to build freely upon the ideas and
information conveyed by a work....This result is neither unfair nor
unfortunate. It is the means by which copyright advances the
progress of science and art."
-- Justice Sandra Day O'Connor
(Feist Publications, Inc. v. Rural Telephone
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