Posted on 05/07/2009 2:11:41 PM PDT by dangerdoc
So the Copyright Office is currently in the middle reviewing proposed exceptions to the DMCA, and one of the proposals on the table would allow teachers and students to rip DVDs and edit them for use in the classroom. Open and shut, right? Not if you're the MPAA and gearing up to litigate the legality of ripping -- it's trying to convince the rulemaking committee that videotaping a flatscreen is an acceptable alternative. Seriously. It's hard to say if we've ever seen an organization make a more tone-deaf, flailing argument than this.
Take a good look, kids. This is what an industry looks like right before it dies. Video after the break
“I guess we should have to retype the lines from a news article one line at a time per post if we want to discuss it on a news forum too, right?”
You mean that’s not what we’re supposed to do? Now you know why I haven’t been posting articles...
(1) Because a 5 hour series on the civil war might contain an hour worth of class material
(2) Because when covering a topic they might want 15 minute snips from different material in one presentation
That's because the last administration got it into their peabrains that things like the DMCA or limiting spam were "anti-business."
You’ve got it BACKWARDS. MPAA and RIAA lobbied to change EXISTING copyright law.
They are the ones wasting your congresscritter’s time on copyright law.
The school is doing as always has been permitted under the law.
Big Media doesn’t like it.
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