from Ars Technica. Fair use group comes up with classroom copyright primer
"As various forms of media have gone digital, it has become far easier to make exact copies of material, including material that happens to be under copyright. Content owners have attempted to restrict the copying of this media through laws like the DMCA and legal campaigns against file-sharing, but these efforts have often ignored the concept of fair use entirely. A group of academics involved in media studies has now issued a series of fair use best practices, some of which apply to an audience well beyond the group that drafted the document. .." The whole thing is here: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081111-fair-use-group-comes-up-with-classroom-copyright-primer.html
