Friday November 6 at 9:00 a.m.

Carrier Library Room 301

The next meeting of the Labs & Classrooms Technology Advisory Group (LCTAG) will be held on Friday, November 6 at 9:00 a.m. in Carrier 301.  This meeting is open to all faculty and staff that reserve, teach, or support teaching in labs and technology classrooms.  Refreshments will be served. Register for a door prize when you arrive.

Additional information and meeting agenda.

According to the decision, "media studies or film professors" may circumvent technology that prevents users from making copies (i.e. "access-control technologies") for "audiovisual works included in the educational library of a college or university’s film or media studies department" to make "compilations of portions of those works for educational use in the classroom." 

Learn more:

• "Professors and Librarians Win Narrow Exemptions to Rules in Digital Copyright Act." The Chronicle of Higher Education. November 28, 2006.
• "Exemption to Prohibition on Circumvention of Copyright Protection Systems for Access Control Technologies." Federal Register. November 27, 2006.

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