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May 11th, 2009 | copyright and fair use, legal madness, Legal News, propaganda, Stupid legal events, technology and law | 1 comment

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.