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\n\t\tRenee Hobbs to speak Monday against restrictive video copyright law<\/p>\n


\nRenee Hobbs can be reached over the weekend at 978-201-9799<\/p>\n


\nKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 June 1, 2012 — Renee Hobbs, the director of the 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Harrington School of Communication and Media, will testify Monday, June 4, before the U.S. Office of Copyright. She will argue on behalf of kindergarten through grade 12 teachers\u2019 ability to use clips of copy-protected videos for teaching and learning.<\/p>\n


\nIn 1998, Congress made it a crime to bypass copy-protected software on movie DVDs by passing the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. But this law also abridged the doctrine of fair use, which states that people can, under some circumstances, use excerpts of copyrighted materials to advance knowledge. Congress recognized this and created a special provision of the law that enables people to request exemptions once every three years.<\/p>\n


\nHobbs says in her prepared testimony that for years college faculty have benefited from exemptions, but kindergarten through grade12 educators still lack similar protection.

\nShe argues that some draw an arbitrary line between college professors who show their 18-year-old students a clip of the documentary Planet Earth and the high school teachers who show their 18 year-old students the same clip.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cThis differentiation is illogical and baseless,\u201d she says in her remarks. \u201cCollege professors and K-12 teachers are equally in need of quality media because of the ever-blurring line between high school and college curricula. <\/p>\n


\n\u201cEducators need to stand up for their right to make fair use of copyrighted materials– and movies are an important resource for all teachers,\u201d Hobbs said. \u201cThat’s why I’m going to Washington to ask the copyright office for an exemption so that K-12 teachers can legally make clip compilations— short excerpts of movies to use in teaching.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nA summary of Hobbs\u2019 argument can be found at: http:\/\/mediaeducationlab.com\/seeking-exemption-enable-k-12-teachers-rip-videos.<\/p>\n


\nHobbs filed a petition on behalf of educators who use lawfully obtained audiovisual works for educational purposes. <\/p>\n


\n\u201cIt’s a very formal hearing process — and I only have 10 minutes to make my case. Of course, the Motion Picture Association of America will be there to oppose my request. But it’s important to be an advocate for educators’ rights under the law,\u201d Hobbs said.<\/p>\n


\nRenee Hobbs is a professor and founding director of the Harrington School of Communication and Media at the 溏心vlog免费B站. The Harrington School brings together departments and programs in journalism, film\/media, communication studies, public relations, writing and rhetoric and a graduate program in library and information science.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Renee Hobbs to speak Monday against restrictive video copyright law Renee Hobbs can be reached over the weekend at 978-201-9799 KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 June 1, 2012 — Renee Hobbs, the director of the 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Harrington School of Communication and Media, will testify Monday, June 4, before the U.S. Office of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}