Re: Distance Education, Intellectual Property, and The TEACH Act

From: Denis <denis[_at_]nbb.com.br>
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 17:09:10 -0500

It might be interesting to your work:
http://www.denisbarbosa.addr.com/summum.doc

At 21:10 13/11/2006, you wrote:

>Hi,
>
>My name is Katherine L. McDaniel. I am a research fellow with the
>Information Society Project at the Yale Law School (http://
>research.yale.edu/isp/). I'm currently writing a paper that compares
>and critiques various national exceptions to and limitations on
>copyright aimed at promoting distance education. The relevant
>legislation in the United States is the "Technology, Education, and
>Copyright Harmonization Act of 2002" ("The TEACH Act"). There are a
>lot of law review articles that discuss the text of the law , but not so
>many that explore how the law is actually used by distance educators.
>Because the goal of this paper is to develop model laws that other in
>countries could implement, it is really important to me that I
>understand how this particular law works in practice. Thus I am
>appealing to this list serve in the hopes that distance educators or
>administrators in higher education copyright compliance offices might
>have time to speak with me, on or off the the record, about the TEACH Act.
>
>Specifically, I am interested in learning whether:
>
>1) The TEACH Act has made distance education easier, harder, or has had
>no effect.
>2) The TEACH Act creates adequate exceptions to copyright, or if
>further exceptions/limitations on copyright are needed to meet
>distance educators' needs.
>3) Whether or not distance educators are aware of/understand copyright
>laws and the TEACH Act's provisions and, if so, whether they seek to
>comply with CR laws and the TEACH Act exceptions them or whether the
>copyright laws are ignored.
>4) Any other considerations re: the TEACH Act, copyright, and distance
>education that Congress should address.
>
>
>My hypothesis is that the TEACH Act did not create adequate exceptions
>to copyright, but this belief comes only from having read the text of
>the law and the thoughts of distance educators are far more relevant,
>thus I am hoping that a few people would have the time to discuss
>copyright issues in the context of distance education.
>
>Please feel free to respond to this list serve or to contact me directly
>at katherine.mcdaniel[_at_]yale.edu.
>
>
>Thanks,
>
>Katherine L. McDaniel
>
>
>
>
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