website maintained by Judy Shoaf, director of the Language Learning Center at the University of Florida since 1993. She now writes a column on legal issues for the IALLT journal Language Learning and Technology
Eyes are on "the UCLA case," where a university has been sued because it undertook to provide video streams on campus without asking permission from the video rights holders. The case is not likely to be definitive but it raises important questions: What constitutes classroom use of a film? Can an institution sign away its fair use rights? Who is responsible for providing the infrastructure for streaming media distribution at an educational institution?