Re: Colleges explore legal Net music setups

["Heather Morrison" <hmorrison@ola.bc.ca>]

On the topic of use enforcement, I'm wondering how well the technologies
developed will distinguish between illegal activity and legitimate sharing
of audiovisual files?  Better than those internet filters that screen out
sites on breat cancer, I hope...

My assumption is that legitimate file sharing of audiovisual material, for
academic as well as many other purposes, will gradually increase over the
next few years as more and more people acquire the means to produce their
own videos, CDs, etc.

Film studies students and departments might wish to publish some of their
works for free distribution via the internet, to showcase their talent as
well as to share ideas and experiences with other groups of students and
faculty.  Music students, or any other fine arts students for that matter,
might do the same.

Development of these skills would be beneficial to the entertainment
industry, in my opinion.

There are many other potential legitimate academic reasons for audiovisual
file sharing.  Students might want to publish their best classroom
presentations or videos of field work.  Universities and colleges might
like to webcast public lectures, debates, or other special events.

hope this helps,

Heather Grace Morrison


liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu writes:
>Colleges explore legal Net music setups
><http://news.com.com/2100-1027_3-5059030.html>
>by John Borland, CNET News.com
>August 1, 2003
>
>I find this rather disturbing, mostly due to the makeup of the task 
>force (follow the link to the EDUCAUSE page) and the contents of the 
>RFI's.
>
>Thoughts?  I guess campuses technically already do this when they 
>arrange for campus cable service, or license access to database and 
>ejournal content (though the task force is conspicuously short on 
>librarians, who have the most experience negotiating content 
>licenses) but it seems to me a Very Bad Idea to get into this content 
>licensing and use enforcement business voluntarily.
>
>Claire
>claire-stewart@northwestern.edu
>http://staffweb.library.northwestern.edu/staff/cstewart/
>http://copyrightreadings.blogspot.com