--- Forwarded Message from "Shoaf,Judith P" <[log in to unmask]> --- >From: "Shoaf,Judith P" <[log in to unmask]> >To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum <[log in to unmask]> >Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 09:51:43 -0400 >Subject: RE: #9194.3 (!) video streaming of films >Thread-Topic: #9194.3 (!) video streaming of films >Thread-Index: AcoLlFGqti0qe9pPQw+o2Zb42I+TgQABoBsw >References: <[log in to unmask]> >In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]> >Accept-Language: en-US >acceptlanguage: en-US I would like to add to my earlier repressive comment that I am looking forward to seeing the Digital Millenium act seriously revised at some point. I have been following one of the requests for exemption (led by Gary Handman of Berkeley) and it is fascinating to see how trivial the arguments against the kind of practice Mark Kaiser describes (4-minute clips for targeted purposes in language classes) are. Part of the problem is that every library/school wants to get on the bandwagon and stream their $30 library copies of videos to all their students/clients. The line in the sand drawn by the industry is to protect their income from DVDs. And it does make sense: if nobody profits from manufacturing DVDs, then nobody is going to issue them.... I think that the industry needs to set up some kind of major clearinghouse for rights. Right now many kinds of rights (esp. public performance) are bought up by certain companies who charge a wide variety of fees for use; the result tends to be that purchase of these rights, which is both onerous (just locating who owns the rights) and expensive, is often ignored. There needs to be a different definition of what is fair use and a different method from encryption to ensure that, on the one hand, the industry gets its profit and, on the other, libraries etc. are not crippled by fees for showing or streaming videos. 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. Subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives at http://listserv.dartmouth.edu/scripts/wa.exe?A0=LLTI Otmar Foelsche, LLTI-Editor ([log in to unmask]) ***********************************************