Section 110-2 allows "the performance of a nondramatic literary or musical work or reasonable and limited portions of any other work, or display of a work in an amount comparable to that which is typically displayed in the course of a live classroom session" (emphasis added).The strict interpretation of this is that only "reasonable and limited portions" of a theatrical (dramatic) film may be presented online, that is, clips or perhaps longer scenes, but never whole works. However, since film studies courses frequently do involve live screenings of a series of theatrical films in a classroon setting, it is possible to interpret the law as allowing digital streaming of the film to be discussed, so that the students have the same opportunity to see the entire work as their on-campus counterparts.

Displays of any work "in an amount comparable to that which is typically displayed in the course of a live classroom session."

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