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"Copyright law does include exemptions for professors who wish to use audiovisual media "in the course of face-to-face teaching activities of a nonprofit educational institution, in a classroom or similar place devoted to instruction" - so long as the professor is not showing media that he or she knows has been made illegally. The university said streaming the video on a password-protected Web site, where only students who are registered members of the class can access it, satisfies these criteria. But the trade group is arguing that a password-protected space on the Web is not a classroom. "The face-to-face teaching exemption allows a video to be played in class, not streamed to the classroom from a remote location," Dohra said in an e-mail."