-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jaeschke, Myles Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 9:43 AM
> This has now made Yahoo's "top stories". Except that they feature > jailbreaking smart phones as the lead... > > http://news.yahoo.com/s/ytech_wguy/ytech_wguy_tc3236 > > Funny that he mentions the FCC as ones who "announced" this as it is the LOC > that oversees this. > > Myles Jaeschke > Media Collections > Tulsa City County Library Here's the entire Yahoo segment on this topic -- "Professors, students and documentary filmmakers are now allowed, for "noncommercial" purposes, to break the copy protection measures on DVDs to be used in classroom or other not-for-profit environments. This doesn't quite go so far as to grant you and me the right to copy a DVD so we can watch it in two rooms of the house, but it's now only one step away." -- and you'll notice that the distinction about ALL professors but JUST film/media studies students is not made. The Yahoo statement makes it appear as though any prof and any student for any reason can break the anti-circumvention measures. Sigh. This kind of oversimplification is what makes it harder when we have to explain that patrons actually can't do ANYthing they want. Susan VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors.
