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Posted by timepixdc on 02/02/07 10:16
In article <52epkdF1oels0U1@mid.individual.net>,
"PTravel" <ptravel@travelersvideo.com> wrote:
> That's, at best, an incomplete statement of the educational fair use
> exception -- there's no blanket authorization to do this.
From http://www.copyright.gov/fedreg/2006/71fr68472.html:
"Based on the Registers review of the record, the case has been made
for exemptions pertaining to the following six classes of copyrighted
works.
1. Audiovisual works included in the educational library of a college or
universitys film or media studies department, when circumvention [of
DVD encryption] is accomplished for the purpose of making compilations
of portions of those works for educational use in the classroom by media
studies or film professors."
further:
"Having duly considered and accepted the recommendation of the Register
of Copyrights that the prohibition against circumvention of
technological measures that effectively control access to copyrighted
works shall not apply to persons who engage in noninfringing uses of the
six classes of copyrighted works designated above, the Librarian of
Congress is exercising his authority under 17 U.S.C. 1201(a)(1)(C) and
(D) and is publishing as a new rule the six classes of copyrighted works
that shall be subject to the exemption found in 17 U.S.C. 1201(a)(1)(B)
from the prohibition against circumvention of technological measures
that effectively control access to copyrighted works set forth in 17
U.S.C. 1201(a)(1)(A) for the period from November 27, 2006 through
October 27, 2009."
So. If you're a media studies or film professor you can defeat a DVD's
encryption and copy clips off of a DVD.
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