Good evening, This announcement from EFF might be of interest also to AIR-L. ³The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) won three critical exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) anticircumvention provisions today² ... ³EFF also won a groundbreaking new protection for video remix artists currently thriving on Internet sites like YouTube. The new rule holds that amateur creators do not violate the DMCA when they use short excerpts from DVDs in order to create new, noncommercial works for purposes of criticism or comment if they believe that circumvention is necessary to fulfill that purpose. Hollywood has historically taken the view that "ripping" DVDs is always a violation of the DMCA, no matter the purpose.² Read the entire announcement: http://www.eff.org/press/archives/2010/07/26 Best wishes, Johan Johan Oomen Head of Research Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision twitter: @johanoomen