[Athen] DMCA and Fair Use

[Kerri Hicks]

On Feb 28, 2007, at 3:15 PM, Sarah Horton wrote:


> Hi, Kerri! I'm new here and can tell already already I'm going to  

> learn a lot from this list!


Fancy meeting you here! How's your new CIO? ;-)



> This copyright stuff makes my head spin, but I was wondering about  

> how the November 2006  "Rulemaking on Exemptions from Prohibition  

> on Circumvention of Technological Measures that Control Access to  

> Copyrighted Works" figures into the discussion. It seems to allow  

> circumvention in an educationcal context - at least for media  

> studies and film professors!


The exemptions from late last year are really specific in what they  
cover. As far as I know, they don't cover, for example, a song that a  
professor might download from iTunes, or a snippet of video from a  
DVD that has Macrovision protection.

That the new proposal seems to cover a broader audience and a greater  
number of media types and uses. Also, the November 2006 rule is set  
to expire October 27, 2009.

--Kerri