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Tuesday, October 08, 2002
http://chronicle.com/free/2002/10/2002100801t.htm Congress Eases Copyright Restrictions on Distance Education DAN CARNEVALE President Bush is expected to sign a bill, passed last week, that would open the door for professors to use some copyrighted works in online courses without having to seek permission. On Thursday, the Senate approved HR 2215, a bill authorizing spending for the Department of Justice. The bill includes a provision that would ease copyright law for online education. The House of Representatives passed the same bill the previous week. The legislation would amend the Copyright Act of 1976 so that online-education instructors could use excerpts from recordings of dramatic literary and musical works -- such as plays, musicals, and operas -- on course Web sites without seeking permission from the copyright owners....
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