To the extent that the teachers make copies of copyrighted material,
they are breaking the law. It used to be standard practice for college
instructors to ask for "desk copies" of text books and then send
chapters to the local campus copy center for replication for the whole
class. Finally, the textbook publishers got wise and started cracking
down on this (IMO sleazy) practice. I do have sympathy for wanting to
avoid the high cost of text books, but this is not the way to do it.
Now a question: Is making slides from book illustrations any different?
For example, if a photograph is over 50 years old, is the image in the
public domain, or does the fact that the image has been reproduced in a
copyrighted book also copyright the image? Any copyright attorneys out
there? (opinions from Perry Mason wannabes gladly accepted)
Carson Graves
carson@ileaf.com