OK rather than continuing to send that entire article over and over I will post separately. I have not had the time ( or the stomach) since ALA to post about the copyright session in which two of the main ALA experts on copyright discussed the general issue. Let's just say one of them ( I suspect the other agreed but had left) explained why any school could stream any feature film without a license or payment to rights holder ( though apparently the exact same "reasoning" did not apply to books).
Maybe I will find time in the next few days but I am still stunned that they could claim it with a straight face.
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