I use the web not to be trendy but because I can communicate more concepts, more clearly, than before. In short, this technology has enabled me to become a better teacher and my students to become better learners. Where the music was not in the public domain, I have obtained permission from the publishers and linked to their home pages. It has been my experience that publishers are fascinated with the implications of this emerging technology for their own businesses and quite willing to grant permission for educational and non-profit purposes. In turn I have granted permission to several entities to use my copyrighted graphics of music in the public domain, so long as the graphic remains unchanged, is properly credited, and the user provides a link to my source page.
Sounds are more complicated.
The musical examples in these courses may, in the future, be served in RealAudio. However, it will be necessary first to obtain permission from the various artists and recording labels. I decided to delay this phase until the courses were well stabilized in terms of content. Until then, I have used the Voyager application CDLink which complies with copyright by accessing audio examples from compact disk recordings owned by the University or students themselves. Persons interested in learning how to serve and play vcd files on CDLink may refer to my ATMI presentation October of 1996 .