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MPAA Says Teachers Should Camcord For Fair Use
unlametheweak recommends an Ars Technica piece detailing the convoluted lengths to which the MPAA will go in order to keep anybody from ripping a DVD, ever. The organization showed a film to the US Copyright Office, in the triennial hearing to spell out exemptions to the DMCA, giving instructions for how a teacher could use a camcorder to record a low-quality clip of a DVD for educational use — even though such a purpose is solidly established in law as fair use. "Never mind that this solution results in video of questionable quality and requires teachers to learn even more tech in order to get the job done. It also requires schools (or, given the way most schools are run, the teachers themselves) to incur additional costs to purchase camcorders and videotapes if they don't have them already. Add in the extra time involved, and this 'solution' is a laughably convoluted alternative to simply ripping a clip from a DVD."
Nah, can't do that, teacher might use the camcorder to videotape students in the locker room.
Now I know what that guy was doing behind me while I was watching Star Trek yesterday. He was just making a clip for fair use.
According to the MPAA, it is a-okay to use a camcorder to record a movie!
requiring you to defend yourself from a wild boar with a knife, even if you have a gun, just because it is not legal to have a gun where you live. (Even if you don't happen to have a knife.)
BTW, like the MPAA, wild boars are vicious.
This issue is a bit more complicated than you think.
Given the technology skills most my teachers have had I can see them trying to put the dvd inside a photocopier and hoping for the best. Your average teacher couldn't rip a DVD, and why bother when you can just get any notable clip you want off youtube. Go fight with Google MPAA.
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Teachers may also make partial copies of a CD for education purposes by recording to a vinyl record and playing it back on a phonograph.
God, schmod. I want my monkey man!
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One would expect the MPAA to suggest teachers use pantomime since this would please both themselves and the RIAA.
Everything in the Universe sucks: It's the law!
until Star.Trek.(2009).Mr.BeRNaRD.3rdPeRIod.SoCiALSTudiES.avi hits the scene.
Don't worry, you'll learn.
Or costs quite as much to get rid of.
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I Agree completely, in fact I can remember Instances in School were a lot of classes Social studies, Science . . .
I see in fact can Remember no English clases.
If NEA is as powerful as many around here think it is, the recording industry is going down.
When the axe came to the forest, the trees said, "Look out - the handle was once one of us."
I doubt something will be done anytime soon.
OTOH I do not see why teachers would be an exception. They should teaching us stuff, including what is right and what is wrong. Where did I do my first copyright violations? Yep, many many years before the Internet was available. I did it by making copies of books.
Not only did I do that, my teacher told me to do so. Even then I knew something wrong was going on, as the first copy I was sure to make was the copyright notice. I thought it was pretty ironic. I also thought that it was allowed, because my teacher told me to do so.
So if making copies is legal, what is all the fuzz about? In my mind if I do not make money of it by selling the copies, it s OK. (Luckily my government things about the same).
So the teachers taught me wrong and as everybody knows, making copies is a stepping stone thing. One day you make a copy of your CD so it won't scratch and before you know it, you sell crack to kids to finance the terrorists.
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
We can't have teachers ripping DVD-quality clips all willy-nilly. Why, if someone got ahold of enough teachers, he could put all their clips together and re-create the original movie! In digital DVD quality! You pirates will surely roast in hell for even considering it.
Who is that, a French porn star? The phrase you are looking for is je ne sais quoi.
First you start out stealing songs, then you're robbing liquor stores, and selling crack, and running over school kids with your carrrrrrrrr.....
So don't download this song... </wierd al>
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You can't tell me that the notoriety of Jack the Ripper isn't in some part due to his name.
Agree. "Elvis the Ripper" just doesn't have the same ring to it.
Set your phasers on "funky"!
Okay, I'm pretty sure a movie theater screen was involved, rather than a television set, but the basic mechanism is essentially the same.
I was only pursuing an education, honest! It's not fair - Obi-Wan trained Anakin Skywalker, but he wouldn't train me. I have to get my force training somewhere, don't I?
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