According to Brandon Butler, Director of Policy Initiatives at the Association of Research Libraries, “the federal district court in central California has dismissed the complaint against UCLA over ripping and streaming DVDs to authenticated users over the Internet. The case was dismissed on both procedural grounds (state sovereign immunity, standing) and substantive ones (UCLA did not infringe copyright).” Experts are not saying this case makes sweeping changes to laws or regulations. However, in the context of pending litigation on copyright it may offer some hope for fair use applications for video presentations.
ARL Policy Notes. “A Copyright Victory: Video Vendor Case Dismissed!”
http://policynotes.arl.org/post/11024602634/a-copyright-victory-video-vendor-case-dismissed
Scholarly Communications at Duke. “Streaming Video Case Dismissed”
http://blogs.library.duke.edu/scholcomm/2011/10/04/streaming-video-case-dismissed/
Full-text of the decision
http://www.aime.org/news.php?download=nG0kWaN9ozI3plMlCGRm&u=111004120000
