A Model of Streaming Content Delivery and Utilization for Educational Purpose (<Special Issue>Studies on Practical Use of e-Learning)

Abstract

This paper proposes a model of streaming content delivery and utilization for educational purpose. Extracting main functions realized in existing digital content delivery and utilization systems, the author aggregates these functions and adds two functions which are helpful in balancing the interests of copyright holders and users of streaming content. One is a function which allows copyright holders to figure out their content status information.: e.g., when or how many times their contents are used. The other function allows the copyright holders to request the user a small charge for the short time streaming content (called streaming learning object module in this paper). In addition, interpreting the copyright law, this paper describes that streaming corresponds to "interactive transmission" while downloading involves both "interactive transmission" and "reproduction". Compared with other types of digital content delivery, more practical agreement between copyright holders and users can be made.