Re: Disabled Students Recording of Lectures

From: Heidi Howard <heidi8[_at_]cris.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 1996 16:37:07 -0500 (EST)

> Can anyone assist me with specific policies or procedures on
>
> 1. Taping of lectures and the rights of the lecturer to
> intellectual property?
>
> I am having a battle with some of the lecturers at the University who are
> concerned with how students with a disability will use lecture material
> that has been taped. Are students required to provide written assurance
> that material taped will only be used for study purposes?

Back in the late 80's, I volunteered as a Reader for a charity in Miami that made books on tape for people who were defined as legally blind. We did mostly textbooks, reading every word in the book, and the tapes were archived and made available to people across the state who needed them. While I was not involved in obtaining any rights to the books (I was only in high school then), I was told that this was a fair use of the books. The people who needed the tapes didn't buy new copies of the books, although the charity had bought the copy of the book that we were reading from. But since it's legal to sell used copies of a book (or cd, or record album, for that matter) that shouldn't have anything to do with making it fair use.

                              Heidi Ilena Howard

                 Heidi8@cris.com   http://www.cris.com/~heidi8
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