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LLTI-Editor <[log in to unmask]>
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Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 14 Oct 2008 08:39:18 -0400
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So is it circumventing the coding to take the analog output of a DVD player
and send it to a digital media converter to capture the video with or
without subtitles?  I know the quality is slightly lower but by the time you
compress it it shouldn't make any difference.
Tom Browne

On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 1:20 PM, LLTI-Editor <[log in to unmask]>wrote:

> --- Forwarded Message from Judy Shoaf <[log in to unmask]> ---
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> >Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:04:08 -0400
> >From: Judy Shoaf <[log in to unmask]>
> >User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031)
> >To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum
> <[log in to unmask]>
> >Subject: Video clips and copyright  ONE MORE TIME
> >References: <[log in to unmask]>
> >In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]>
>
> OK, this is a complicated website Mr. Handman has put up. I made 2 posts
> already, relevant to streaming video, but this one is different.
>
> THIS is his letter re. circumventing access controls in making clips:
>
> http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/dmcacomments.pdf
>
> At the bottom of this page,
> http://mrcstream.wordpress.com/category/dmca-comments/
> you can enter comments supporting his initiative.
>
> This is a significant effort we IALLT folks can make, since clips from
> DVDs with varying subtitles (none, same-language, English) are so useful
> in teaching.
>
> Right now it is illegal to make such clips for classroom teaching from
> DVDs which have technical access controls (coding), including of course
> region coding.
>
> It is legal to make them from, say, a VHS tape, or a DVD which has no
> such encoding; however, most DVDs DO have the encoding
>
> The current state of rulemaking allows film and media professors to
> circumvent coding to make clips for classroom teaching, but not other
> teachers.
>
> So the request Mr. Handman is offering is for the right of all teachers
> to circumvent the coding in making clips.
>
> Judy Shoaf
>
>
>
>
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