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April 02, 2007, 03:46 PM ET
New Program Urges Students to Resist the RIAA
Those who view the Recording Industry Association of America's lawsuits against college students as heavy-handed can take heart in a new program intended to encourage students to speak out about their fair-use rights in a digital environment.
Dubbed Digital Freedom University, the program helps students set up chapters on their campuses to learn about copyright law's fair-use exemption and to fight those who seek to chip away at those rights. The first chapter was established at James Madison University, according to the Digital Freedom Campaign, a group founded by the American Library Association and others.
"The Digital Freedom Campaign believes that the best way to reach college students about the appropriate uses of technology is to engage them, not to prosecute them," a spokesman for the group said in a written statement. "While illegal music downloads continue to be a serious challenge on college campuses, students are the catalysts of the digital age and are far more likely to respect the rights of artists if their digital freedoms are respected as well." -- Andrea L. Foster
Categories: Campus-Piracy
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