Saturday, May 9, 2009

MPAA tries to negate Fair Use

From Ars Technica "MPAA: teachers should videotape monitors, not rip DVDs" May 7, 2009.
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) provides instruction for how teachers are supposed to videotape clips for classroom use. What happened to Fair Use? If MPAA keeps this up, they'll force everyone to find alternative resources and cut themselves out of the loop. We can all live without their products. What we won't do is stop learning, communicating, and creating.

And...on an unrelated matter to Fair Use...I have to wonder, does the MPAA make sure that the electricians, camera people, etc continue to profit from the products they helped create? Or is it only a small few that profit from copyright? Just asking.

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