Students of Convenience

The is a 'post in progress' to keep track of this topic. 

 I am not sure where "students' convenience" factor enters the copyright arena, but I know it's in the building.


This is from a Chronicle article about the UCLA streaming case:

Robin L. Garrell, a UCLA chemistry professor and chair of the Academic Senate....said the ability to use streaming videos has been beneficial for students, who might have trouble reaching the university’s media lab at a specific time set to view materials.
“As you can imagine, in Los Angeles, a five-mile commute might be a one-hour commute. So this is really important for our students, so they can manage their time,” Ms. Garrell said.

I was thinking it was a stretch to make "student convenience" an arguement for fair use, but
the RDR Books and Perfect 10 cases were victories for the indexing and organizing of information as a valid tranformative use of copyrighted works. A professor might be said to be doing the same thing by organizing their materials on to a CD. Transforming also bearing on convenince: now students don't have to go to the library, they can take everything home or get it online.