I think the article comments characterize the issue very well. Essentially, as I understand it, UCLA has some kind of student-only-accessible video service that allows professors to host video (including movies) for the students in their classes, so that they can screen the video, for which the university has already paid royalties. The contention is then that this mode of sharing the video violates the copyright holders' rights, as represented by a trade group.
- Matt SFC Berkeley > This is ludicrous. I think. Is the issue that they're posting their videos > which include other people's videos or videos of their own lectures, etc? > > ~ ~ ~ > thoughts / http://fredbenenson.com/blog > work / http://kickstarter.com > sights / http://flickr.com/fcb > sounds / http://www.last.fm/user/mecredis > status / http://twitter.com/mecredis > > > > On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 6:35 PM, Matthew Senate > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Perhaps this will be protected by the misrepresentations clause [512(f)] >> of the DMCA. Extremely frustrating and silly, though. I wonder if the >> Open >> Video Alliance has caught wind of this. I'll send it through the Free >> Culture Pipeline. >> >> >> http://www.dailybruin.com/articles/2010/1/25/ucla-professors-banned-posting-videos-online/ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss >> > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
