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I received this email from a faculty member (who received it from
faculty of another institution) after a discussion of copyright issues
pertaining to DVDs. I am aware of the iPod decision mentioned but am
not at all familiar with the supposed decision that I have bolded below.
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Can anyone confirm this claim? I'm not going to hold my breath on this
one.
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Dennis
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Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2007 5:05 PM
To: McGuire, Dennis
Subject: Library of Congress, DVD encryption & education
Below is the e-mail I mentioned re DVD copying for educational puposes I
mentioned at our meeting. Seems it relates to portions of films only.
Best, Judd
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Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 08:24:06 -0600
Subject: Library of Congress, DVD encryption & education
The practice of ripping portions of films for educational use has been
in
the gray area of legality for some time thanks to the DCMA, but this
appears
to be good news (at least in terms of CYA):
http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?RSS&newsID=3D16570
The Library of Congress <http://www.loc.gov/index.html> has rejected a
petition that would allow US iPod users to copy their movies to iPods
and
other devices.
iPod users had petitioned for the right to break the encryption
technology
on DVDs they legally own in order to rip the movies to iTunes and to
their
iPods.
However, the Library of Congress has loosened the rules protecting DVD
encryption to allow professors of movie studies to break copy protection
for
educational use.
Professors had been asking for - and have now received - the right to
break
the copy protection on DVDs in order that they could put together
compilations of movie clips for their classes.
Under US laws, they were unable to legally do this, and studios had
argued
that they could use VHS to do the same thing.
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