Per the article:
"One change in particular is making waves in academe: an exemption that allows professors in all fields and "film and media studies students" to hack encrypted DVD content and clip "short portions" into documentary films and "non-commercial videos." (The agency does not define "short portions.")
This means that any professors can legally extract movie clips and incorporate them into lectures, as long as they are willing to decrypt them -- a task made relatively easy by widely available programs known as "DVD rippers.""
As far as general video resources go for faculty, here are some options that are popular for classroom use:
http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm
http://www.teachersdomain.org/
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/programs/
http://www.learner.org/index.html
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