Peter Friedman
Lawyer
Ruling Imagination: Law and Creativity
May 11th, 2009 | copyright and fair use, legal madness, Legal News, propaganda, Stupid legal events, technology and law
The MPAA explains how to show DVD clips in the classroom (the easy way?)
More lobbying to ridicule! From Ars Technica comes a video shown by the Motion Picture Assocation of America to the U.S. Copyright Office as “part of the triennial DMCA exemptions review.”
In the video, the MPAA suggests that teachers who want to use movie clips as part of their curricula should use a camcorder to record the movie off of a TV set, and that this is an acceptable way to use video clips without breaking a DVD’s copyright protections.
May 13th, 2009 at 9:42 am
I read your article on the jury system with timely interest as, last week, for the first opportunity in my life, I had jury duty. I firmly believe in the jury system and the responsibility of each citizen to serve when called.
But I must express my tremendous frustration of sitting around eight hours a day, day after day, just waiting to be called for service on a jury. I finally was seated on a jury just to have the case thrown out by the judge for lack of evidence after about an hour’s worth of testimony from prosecution witnesses. I would love to have served on a jury judging a substantive case.
The waste of time is not that of actually being on a jury, but the interminable waiting with the possibility of never being called.