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>Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 12:26:20 -0400
>From: "Jack L. Burston" <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: #7156 permission to make audio CDs
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Dear Jim,

Although I've found textbook publishers very accomodating in allowing our center
to digitize audio cassette programs, and to store & distribute existing CD
materials from a LAN server, I doubt that you'll have much luck getting
permission to burn copies of their CD for distribution to students. Audio lab
programs are typically bundled with the textbook, so producers aren't likely to
let you have the one without buying the other. I'd suggest also that it would be
best to get out of the tape/cd copying business anyway. Once material is made
available to students from a networked server, it really doesn't serve much
purpose to be creating physical copies of the media. Regards, Jack


Jack Burston, Ph.D.
Director
Foreign Language Technology Center
Rochester Institute of Technology