--- Forwarded Message from Judy Shoaf <[log in to unmask]> --- >Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2009 10:52:21 -0500 >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: Fed. rulemaking: DVD clip compilations I had mentioned that requests were going forward to allow instructors at various levels to circumvent DVD encryption in order to make copies of clips to be shown in class. This right, or rather exemption, was obtained in 2006 by film instructors using DVDs purchased by their departmental libraries for teaching purposes. So far it has not been extended to any other kind of instructor or class of media (e.g. even a film professor could not take a clip from a personal DVD if it was copy-protected, and a language professor would not be allowed to make clip compilations at all). The request I am involved with is that of Gary Handman, of the Media Resources Center UC Berkeley. I heard about it through the Videolib-l list. It turns out that there are a lot of academics who had similar ideas. Here is an article that summarizes the various requests: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/12/30/copyright Here is the site where all the requests have been posted: http://www.copyright.gov/1201/2008/index.html (It is still possible to submit a comment at http://www.copyright.gov/1201/comment-forms/) Judy Shoaf *********************************************** LLTI is a service of IALLT, the International Association for Language Learning (http://iallt.org/), and The Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning (http://www.languageconsortium.org/). Join IALLT at http://iallt.org. Otmar Foelsche, LLTI-Editor ([log in to unmask]) ***********************************************