Return-Path: <nifl-technology@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id gALHUjX29521; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 12:30:45 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 12:30:45 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <7FFDFAB2-FD76-11D6-A698-0030656A26C8@worlded.org> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-technology@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-technology@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-technology@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: Jeff Carter <jcarter@worlded.org> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-technology@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-TECHNOLOGY:2670] Re: Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.548) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Status: O Content-Length: 1953 Lines: 55 On Thursday, November 21, 2002, at 09:43 AM, Hacker, Emily wrote: > Public Comment Period on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) > Open > Now through December 18 Thank you Emily for getting the word out about this public comment period on the DCMA. I've also heard that it's useful to write letters, and not only to your senators and congressperson, but also to a prominent media outlet, like your major newspapers. Politicians, of course, hear more from the media businesses than from individual consumers on this issue. To the extent that librarian and educator groups have protested, it seems like it's been too easy for them to be marginalized as "special interest groups," maybe because individual citizens have not been heard from as much. Whatever the forum, I imagine what is especially effective, if you are an educator, is to point out specifically how provisions of the DCMA affect you (or your school or program) specifically. Which I guess begs the question(s) to this list: (a) Do you in fact feel like this issue touches you in some way as an educational or ed-tech issue? (b) Even if feel like it does, do you in fact have a specific experience where a provision of the DCMA has frustrated you? In Adult Ed, in particular, there are so many issues to contend with, and so little resources (including time) to prepare for all the things you have to do to teach or run a program, it makes me wonder if this is one of those issues that falls to the backburner, even for the tech enthusiasts on this list. Here are a couple of additional links you may find helpful: The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) <http://www.eff.org/> <http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/20020503_dmca_consequences.html> Educause <http://www.educause.edu/issues/dmca.html> Jeff Jeff Carter World Education Boston, MA (617) 482-9485 -------------- e-mail: jcarter@worlded.org <http://literacytech.worlded.org> <http://www.worlded.org>
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