[Ldsoss] LDS Opencontent Directory

[Justin R Findlay]

On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 09:53:53AM -0600, Christopher Phillips wrote:
>    The CES organization seems to still be working out many details of what
>    their specific policies will be. It is my understanding that some of
>    these same issues are being addressed in the Worldwide Church.  My
>    concern is the extent to which we are being discouraged from using and
>    sharing with each other resources that may be copyrighted. It is
>    unrealistic to expect the general member of the Church to understand
>    the complexities of "fair use" of copyrighted materials or be familiar
>    with the process of obtaining a release for use of a copyrighted work
>    in a classroom or other limited setting. With that in mind, it may be
>    necessary to prohibit the use of good materials legal to use in certain
>    situations, simply to avoid any risk of copyright violations.

Copyright law is seriously b0rk.  You have my sympathy for having to
regularly deal with it's insanely restrictive terms.


Justin