Re: RIAA Preservation Letter (Announcing Related NACUA Seminar)

[Rodney Petersen <rpetersen () EDUCAUSE EDU>]

Please excuse the cross-post, but the announcement below and timely
seminar being offerred by the National Association of College and
University Attorneys (NACUA) is relevant to this recent discussion
thread and something you may want to consider attending along with your
legal counsel and other administrators involved in your institutional
decision-making on this topic:

NACUA is offering a virtual seminar next Thursday, May 24, called "Stuck
in the Middle with You: A Survival Guide for Campuses Caught in the
File-Sharing Wars". The two-hour event (noon-2pm US Eastern Time)
features some familiar names: Beth Cate from Indiana University, Steve
McDonald from RISD, and Tracy Mitrano from Cornell. The session abstract
begins:

In the three years since the entertainment industry launched its first
wave of litigation against individuals suspected of infringing on music
and motion picture copyrights by means of peer-to-peer file-sharing,
college and university counsel and administrators have become very
familiar with fielding and responding to hundreds of industry notices,
subpoenas and other inquiries designed to seek out and identify the
alleged infringers. Institutions have also implemented policies designed
to educate students about copyright laws and impose sanctions for
inappropriate use of institutional networks, and in some cases have
adopted new technologies to monitor and curtail suspected illegal
file-sharing. Despite those efforts, illegal file-sharing activity
continues, and this spring the Recording Industry Association of America
(RIAA) escalated its enforcement efforts by announcing a new
pre-litigation settlement process and seeking the assistance of colleges
and universities in communicating about this process with students and
other members of the campus community suspected by RIAA of infringement.

See
<http://www.nacua.org/meetings/VirtualSeminars/May2007/VirtualSeminar.ht
ml> for more info.


-Rodney

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