[Rumori] Wow, speak of the devil - academic use of film clips, part 2

[Tim Maloney]

On Feb 2, 2006, at 10:33 PM, kembrew mcleod wrote:

> This is the horrific "analog hole" that the MPAA is crying
> about.

Oh, good point, forgot about that!  Something tells me this isn't the  
way it's working with this device, though.  Here's more I learned  
from the head of my dept.:

> They are well aware of the legal issues and are
> working with Cdigx on this. Apparently, Cdigx makes a film  
> available for
> viewing from its server for only a certain window of time, and somehow
> that seems to be acceptable (along with whatever money it is paying  
> the
> distributor for that window of time, presumably).

Sounds fishy from all corners to me.  I don't think anyone at my  
school actually knows what the thing is or what it does.  More info  
as I learn , if anyone is interested.
>
> Digitizing it that way is not a DMCA violation. Whether or not it  
> falls
> under traditional copyright infringement is another story (though I'd
> assume it's fair use).

For a University it IS Fair Use, and this notion of paying  
distributors for the "window" of time the film is used sounds VERY  
suspicious to me.  As it is, I can screen the film for an audience of  
students as part of my curriculum with no problem.  Why would a copy  
at the school's library, also on reserve for my class, be a different  
case?  This question is, of course rhetorical; maybe I'll soon know  
what they think the answer is.

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