The original article referred I think to changes in US law, which don't necessarily apply in Australia. So i guess my question extends back to Stuart also - do we know if this change affects Australian lawl?<br><br>Both issues are well worth discussion in a classroom setting, but it would be good to know the Australian legal situation from our role as teachers. At present the SmartCopying website is pretty much gospel as far as copyright is concerned, so any changes would need to reflected there. When things are unclear there is a real risk that a teacher somewhere will end up in court.<br>
<br>Back to the region codes - the copyright council website suggest that region codes aren't "protection measures", so Mark's statement certainly appears to be correct:<br><br>"In many cases, <span class="highlightedSearchTerm">DVD</span>s are
region-coded for playing only in particular countries or groups of
countries. <span class="highlightedSearchTerm">Teacher</span>s can
nevertheless play the <span class="highlightedSearchTerm">DVD</span>s in
a multi-region player, or re-set the region coding (we understand this
can sometimes be done via the remote control) or they may have the
region-code control in the <span class="highlightedSearchTerm">DVD</span>
player modified so it plays <span class="highlightedSearchTerm">DVD</span>s
from relevant regions. " <br><a href="http://www.copyright.org.au/information/cit005/cit073/wp0042">http://www.copyright.org.au/information/cit005/cit073/wp0042</a><br><br>Cheers<br>Ken<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 1:12 PM, ken price <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kenjprice@gmail.com">kenjprice@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Thanks Mark - what is the source of that information? <br><br>I'm interested because (so far as I am aware, and according to the SmartCopying webste) it remains illegal to bypass the protection on many commercial DVDs. <br>
<br>The reason given for it being illegal would seem to also apply to the region encoding. Different thing, but still a Technological Protection Measure I'd think.<br><br>from <a href="http://www.smartcopying.edu.au/scw/go/pid/529" target="_blank">http://www.smartcopying.edu.au/scw/go/pid/529</a> :<br>
<br><b>"SCHOOLS ARE NOT ALLOWED TO FORMAT SHIFT IF MAKING THE FORMAT
SHIFT COPY CIRCUMVENTS AN ACCESS CONTROL TECHNOLOGICAL PROTECTION
MEASURE</b> Most commercial DVDs are protected by an <a href="http://www.smartcopying.edu.au/scw/Jahia/lang/en/scw/go/pid/902" target="_blank">access
control technological protection measure</a> (access control TPM).
Schools are not permitted to circumvent this <a href="http://www.smartcopying.edu.au/scw/Jahia/lang/en/scw/go/pid/902" target="_blank">access
control TPM</a> to make a format shift copy (eg, by using software such
as deCSS or DVD Shrink)."<br><br><br><br>Cheers, ken <br><br>TASITE <a href="http://www.tasite.tas.edu.au" target="_blank">www.tasite.tas.edu.au</a><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br><br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Mark KELLY <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kel@mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au" target="_blank">kel@mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">On a similar note, you should know that DVD region encoding has no support under copyright or any other law, and you are free to use any means to circumvent region limitations imposed by movie distributors.<br>
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