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Wishing everyone a wonderful Christmas Season and a Happy New Year.

Taking some time off over the holiday season. Be back in the new year.

The Librarian of Congress has announced the following six classes of works subject to the exemption from the prohibition against circumvention of technological measures that control access to copyrighted works. Perhaps the most important change for academia is that access controls on movies on DVD can be circumvented in the following instances:

  1. Educational uses by college and university professors and by college and university film and media studies students;
  2. Documentary filmmaking;
  3. Noncommercial videos.

The 5 remaining points also provide greater flexibility in accessing digital content on computers and in programs.

Read the full statement on the US Copyright Office site…

Abilene Christian University once again has the honor of being on the the best Colleges to work for list. Good news to come home to.

Read the full article…

I will be taking a break from the blog for the next few weeks. Should be resuming posting at the end of July.