The Internet Law Treatise
I have recently been considering teaching myself some Spanish, if only to make my trip to Mexico in February a little more entertaining. It occurred to me that I have some pretty useful resources on hand for this undertaking: hundreds of DVDs featuring Spanish-language audio tracks. The ideal thing for me would be to select some films that I know well in English and place their Spanish-language audio tracks on my MP3 player. This would allow me to listen to this audio throughout the day to "train my ear" for the language. This idea set me off searching the web, trying to determine what the current legal status of DVD audio extraction is. What I propose seems like fair use, but that does nothing for Digital Millennium Copyright Act issues.
Unfortunately, most of what I found on the net was incomplete and outdated. I did come across one surprisingly helpful resource that I would like to share:
The Internet Law Treatise at the Electronic Frontier Foundation
This site provides what appears to be fairly up-to-date and coherent analysis of a variety of internet and intellectual property legal issues. Even better, the Treatise provides references to the key decisions in each area, allowing the reader to come to his own conclusions.
Unfortunately, most of what I found on the net was incomplete and outdated. I did come across one surprisingly helpful resource that I would like to share:
The Internet Law Treatise at the Electronic Frontier Foundation
This site provides what appears to be fairly up-to-date and coherent analysis of a variety of internet and intellectual property legal issues. Even better, the Treatise provides references to the key decisions in each area, allowing the reader to come to his own conclusions.