Klarinet Archive - Posting 000033.txt from 2009/02

From: "Mark Charette" <charette@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] Derivative Works
Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2009 16:10:51 -0500


> Schools are non-profit institutions of education.
> They are clearly and explicitly exempted in the
> fair-use section of the law, which I quote again
> below for your reference. In fact for educational
> purposes, you can even make "multiple copies for
> classroom use" as explicitly stated in the law.
>

There actually is significant case law in the realm of "course packs"
(material copyrighted but copied by both professors and external
companies). If you care to read through the cases, you;'ll find ...

"sometimes you win, sometimes you pay a lot of money".

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