Videos and Copyright
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/01/26/copyright
The University of California at Los Angeles has stopping allowing faculty members to post copyrighted videos on their course Web sites after coming under fire from an educational media trade group.
The university had allowed professors to steam video in their password protected online courses. The educational media association, the Association for Information and Media Equipment — a group that protects the copyrights of education media companies – claims that this is a copyright violation.
The university countered that it violated no laws, citing a provision that teachers can use legally purchased videos in their classrooms. The trade group counters that a password protected online course is not a classroom.
The two parties have agreed to settle the dispute outside of litigation. Meanwhile, the professors at UCLA have been told to remove the videos from their online classes.
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