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A Washington lawyer warned the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee on Tuesday not to stymie distance education and scholarship as it considers legislation that would prevent the redistribution of television footage. Congress is preparing to draft legislation that would require manufacturers of consumer electronics equipment to add components to their products so that digital television programming could not be widely copied and retransmitted over the Internet. The lawyer, Jonathan Band, representing the Library Copyright Alliance, said any legislation to require the so-called broadcast flag could counteract the Technology Education and Copyright Harmonization Act, which allows educators and libraries to transmit material from news and entertainment programs to students over the Internet. Mr. Band said that Congress should exempt from the flag certain kinds of content, such as news and public-affairs programs. The Library Copyright Alliance is made up of the American Association of Law Libraries, the American Library Association, the Association of Research Libraries, the Medical Library Association, and the Special Libraries Association. Sen. Ted Stevens, an Alaska Republican who is the chairman of the committee, said distance education is important in Alaska and that he did not want to thwart its development. The Chronicle: Wired Campus Blog 1/24/06
Posted by P. Kaufman at January 24, 2006 3:23 PM
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