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[1] From: "David Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> (353)
Subject: TEACH Act Approved by House Judiciary Committee
[2] From: "David Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> (288)
Subject: Online Archive of California: New Version Available
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Subject: D-Lib Magazine: July-August Issue Released
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Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 10:43:43 -0400
From: "David Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu>
Subject: TEACH Act Approved by House Judiciary Committee
TEACH Act Approved by House Judiciary CommitteeNINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources
from across the Community
July 18, 2002
TEACH Act Approved by House Judiciary Committee
Technology Harmonization and Education Act (S 487)
Seems Assured of Final Passage
Chronicle of Higher Education Report:
http://chronicle.com/free/2002/07/2002071801t.htm
See also: http://www.oit.umd.edu/pp/relations/teach/
Yesterday, the House Judiciary Committee unanimously approved the Technology
Harmonization and Education Act (the TEACH Act) (S 487) - for text see:
<http://thomas.loc.gov/>.
This Bill is the result of efforts to implement the recommendations of a
1999 Copyright Study on how to update the Copyright Act to fulfill the just
and legal needs of distance education in a digital world. The study, "Report
on Copyright and Digital Distance Education," is available at:
http://www.loc.gov/copyright/docs/de_rprt.pdf. A good resource on this
legislation is available at the University of Maryland Office of Information
Technology's web site: http://www.oit.umd.edu/pp/relations/teach/
David Green
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Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 09:03:24 -0400 (EDT)
From: snkatz@princeton.edu
Education
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This article from The Chronicle of Higher Education
Thursday, July 18, 2002
House Committee Votes to Ease Copyright Restrictions on
Distance Education
By ANDREA L. FOSTER
The enactment of a bill that would make it easier for
educational institutions to use films and songs in online
instruction was all but assured Wednesday after a key House of
Representatives committee approved the legislation.
The House Judiciary Committee unanimously approved the bill,
the Technology Harmonization and Education Act (S 487), on a
voice vote without debate. It is identical to a bill the
Senate approved in June 2001.
The legislation would expand the exceptions under the
Copyright Act of 1976 that allow colleges and schools to use
copyrighted material for instruction without securing
copyright holders' permission.
The act allows distance-education providers to digitally
transmit nondramatic literary and musical works. Under the
bill, they would also be able to show students selected
portions of movies, plays and other dramatic works.
The legislation applies only to accredited, nonprofit
educational institutions.
Educational and media interests, which had long been at odds
over easing copyright law for online instruction, had
negotiated a compromise -- later formalized in the bill --
more than a year ago. But the chairman of the Judiciary
Committee, Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner Jr., had held up the
legislation. Mr. Sensenbrenner, a Wisconsin Republican, had
indicated that he would only move the bill forward in tandem
with another piece of legislation to create new protections
for databases.
Mr. Sensenbrenner relented, however, when higher-education
interests made a recent push to have the technology
legislation passed into law, and when he realized that
database legislation would be difficult to move forward.
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