Re: yet another query...

["Donna Harrington" <dojaria@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, John -

Interesting question, though I have no idea and, thus, would love to hear
from someone about how to handle this situation.

Donna
UMUC

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Ruttner" <jruttner@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <digital-copyright@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "John Ruttner" <jruttner@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 7:01 PM
Subject: yet another query...


> Hi digitalrati:
> We use BlackBoard  on our campus and by doing this are able to follow -
> and make use of - the opportunities offered by the Teach Act. Recently
> we've had an issue come up however when some of the media files did not
> play properly in a course page. My question concerns the production of
> a back-up CD that contains the media files in question that could be
> handed out to the students in the class. Obviously the only issue is
> the use of copyrighted material on the disk and the fact that it is
> being given to students in a format that cab be reproduced. Will
> providing a disclaimer/warning combined with asking students to give
> back the disk at the end of the course suffice? Or is there some other
> acceptable  back-up/emergency  format  (short of removing all possible
> copyrighted content) that we can give to students? Anyone have any
> experience with this issue or ideas/musings about it?
>
> Thanks all,
> John
>
>
>
> John Ruttner
> Instructional Designer
> Office for Distributed Learning
> CSUSB
>
>
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