November 30, 2001
Copyright Bill's Fate Worries Distance Educators
College administrators are worried that Congress, preoccupied by terrorism and the economy, won't get around to completing legislation that would give online education some of the same copyright exemptions that traditional courses have. Although the bill moved quickly through the Senate this summer, it has since been stalled in a House of Representatives committee.
The bill, S. 487, would allow faculty members in distance courses at nonprofit colleges to use "dramatic literary
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