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>Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 09:53:19 -0600
>Subject: Re:#7859 DVD restrictions
>From: Harold Hendricks <[log in to unmask]>
>To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum
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Thank you Scott for starting this thread.  I've wanted to ask the list if any
other schools have taken the position that BYU has just adopted: Region-free DVD
players are illegal and therefore not allowed to be used at BYU.
This position has obviously curtailed our DVD viewing for film and language
classes.

We are currently trying to get legal office to accept the premise that it is
legal to buy a DVD play that can be set to any region once.  We then must use
that player to display the DVD's from that region.  In essence, we must have 6
players available wherever we once had one code-free player set up to
accommodate all regions.  So far, this seems acceptable to the lawyers, although
they have not formally agreed to this.

I would like to add momentum to the notion that IALLT and other organizations
lobby the U.S. Copyright Office for an educational exemption to the Digital
Millennial Copyright Act to allow the use of region-free players in face-to-face
teaching.  I'll be the first to sign the petition.

On Friday, April 1, 2005, at 10:01 PM, Automatic digest processor wrote:

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If we, as a group, feel the industry is within its rights, then we
must reconcile ourselves to the possibility that we may someday not
even be able to buy devices that play all zones. If we, as a group,
feel that the industry is overstepping its bounds, then we must
consider positive means through which we can help in effecting change.

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