<http://blogs.lib.berkeley.edu/blogs/mrc.php/2006/11/28/professors_and_librarians_win_narrow_exe>Professors
and Librarians Win Narrow Exemptions to Rules in Digital Copyright Act
The U.S. Copyright Office has issued a handful of exemptions to the Digital
Millennium Copyright Act that may benefit media professors, archivists, and
other academics. Under certain circumstances, they will now be allowed to
circumvent access-control technologies on various electronic media.
Under one of the six exemptions, all of which will expire after three
years, professors of film and media studies can circumvent the
access-control technology of DVD's in their libraries to use clips of films
more easily in class.
<http://chronicle.com/daily/2006/11/2006112801t.htm?rss>Full Chronicle of
Higher Education<http://chronicle.com/daily/2006/11/2006112801t.htm?rss>
article
http://chronicle.com/daily/2006/11/2006112801t.htm?rss
<http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6545255&sc=emaf>Podcast
of NPR All Things
Considered<http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6545255&sc=emaf>
program on the new ruling
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6545255&sc=emaf
<http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/01jan20061800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2006/E6-20029.htm>Text
of full ruling
http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/01jan20061800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2006/E6-20029.htm
At 07:50 AM 3/5/2007, you wrote:
>
>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.
>
>Can anyone confirm this claim? I'm not going to hold my breath on this one.
>
>
>
>Dennis
>
>-------------------
>Dennis McGuire
>Head of Digital and Media Services
>Columbia College Chicago Library
>624 S. Michigan Ave.
>Chicago, IL 60605
>(v) 312.344.7434
>(f) 312.344.8062
>-----Original Message-----
>From:
>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
>
>
>From:
>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=16570
>
>
>
>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.
>
Gary Handman
Director
Media Resources Center
Moffitt Library
UC Berkeley
ghandman@library.berkeley.edu
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC
"In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life
presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles."
--Guy Debord
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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.
Can anyone confirm this claim? I'm not going to hold my breath on this one.
Dennis
-------------------
Dennis McGuire
Head of Digital and Media Services
Columbia College Chicago Library
624 S. Michigan Ave.
Chicago, IL 60605
(v) 312.344.7434
(f) 312.344.8062
- -----Original Message-----
- From:
- 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
- From:
- 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=16570
- 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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