This afternoon, EDUCAUSE held a Webcast featuring Terry Hartle, the Senior Vice President of Government and Public Affairs at the American Council on Education. Hartle discussed the peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing provisions in the recently passed Higher Education Act (HEA) Reauthorization, which became law last week. An archive of the hour-long discussion is featured on the EDUCAUSE Connect web site, under the tab "HEA Webcast."
There are two P2P provisions included in the law. Section 485 relates to information that educational institutions must provide students, and section 487 relates to a program participation agreement, which includes certain requirements for combating infringement. For more information, please see EDUCAUSE's P2P page, which features specific details on these two provisions.
