Part three of our ongoing 10 Years of the DMCA series features Peter Decherney, Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies and English at the University of Pennsylvania. In 2006, Professor Decherney, along with Professors Michael Delli Carpini and Katherine Sender, filed for an exemption to the DMCA’s anti-circumvention provisions that would allow educators to circumvent the DRM used on DVDs and other video formats, in order to create short clips for teaching purposes. As Decherney argues in the video, Hollywood is increasingly releasing films and other content in high-resolution, digital formats. Why should educators be forced to use analog outputs for creating clips when high-quality digital clips can be made just as easily?
[video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igMLTkX7ZHc width:430 height:322]How tech supports good policy
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