From: illovich (illovich@home.com)
Date: 03/06/01-08:39:10 AM Z
on 3/6/01 9:08 AM, Sarah Van Keuren at svk@steuber.com wrote:
> Judy wrote:
>> The teacher makes 30 copies of an article to hand to the class without
>> permission, not just P-F obviously, many books and articles. This is of
>> course against the law.
>>
> I'm not certain that this is against the law. A patent lawyer who used to
> speak to printmaking seniors at U Arts talked about the concept of 'fair
> use' of copyrighted material by educators. Has anyone on the List heard of
> this concept?
Technically, fair use is only covered "in the moment" in terms of not having
permission. In other words, a teacher may photocopy an article for a class
once before having to ask permission from the publisher...
At least that's how I understand it.
Cetus maintains a website about fair use, including example scenarios:
http://www.cetus.org/fairindex.html
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