Ricemarine
Lifer
Most of them I said were illegal, but I would like to make sure... From all those, which ones do you think are legal and which aren't?
An elementary public school teacher videotapes a National Geographic special off television for use with her/his students for the next couple of years.
A videotape purchased or rented from a commercial store may be shown to students as a reward for good behavior.
A teacher purchased a workbook with ditto masters for use with her students: the ditto masters wore out, so she instead scans those ditto masters and distributes them to her students via e-mail to complete.
In preparation for a Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday celebration, a superintendent puts a particularly good DVD on the district?s network system which connects to all elementary and secondary school computers in the district. All students in these buildings can stream this DVD at their convenience.
For her school website a webmaster scans a cartoon image of Snoopy, colors it, and changes the words in the balloon to reflect the school?s motto. Charles Schulz, the cartoonist, is dead so the image of his famous dog is in the public domain.
Some of my students? assignments are outstanding! I scan them and put them into a PowerPoint presentation that I am making at a professional conference.
If an item does not display a copyright notice ?©?, it is considered to be in the public domain.
The drama teacher videotaped the school?s production of ?Wizard of Oz? which included the orchestra?s performance of favorite songs. Parents buy duplicated copies of these tapes for the drama club?s fund-raiser. Since it is a school performance, it is covered by the fair use clause.
Information found on the Internet may be freely printed off and duplicated for student and teacher use.
I can put a CD-ROM in a networked tower and use it with my entire class in the lab; the CD-ROM is also available to each classroom throughout the school as well as to each student?s home computer.
A teacher librarian can automatically make a backup copy of a videotape, DVD, CD-ROM, or musical CD to use with her/his students instead of using the original.
An educator is teaching an online course for college credit and streams a digitized video for all his/her students to view during the class.
For a class assignment, students creating multimedia projects take multiple segments from The Terminator accompained by songs of their choice from favorite CD?s.
A teacher records stories on CD?s so that the students can hear the story being read while they are reading the story in the books.
A student uses the school?s computers to access music files from Limewire or Kazaa, the school is not liable for a student?s copyright infringement in this case.
A school?s website accidentally links to another website which has materials violating the copyright law. Because the webmaster did not know of the website?s violation, he/she cannot be held liable for copyright violation.
An elementary public school teacher videotapes a National Geographic special off television for use with her/his students for the next couple of years.
A videotape purchased or rented from a commercial store may be shown to students as a reward for good behavior.
A teacher purchased a workbook with ditto masters for use with her students: the ditto masters wore out, so she instead scans those ditto masters and distributes them to her students via e-mail to complete.
In preparation for a Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday celebration, a superintendent puts a particularly good DVD on the district?s network system which connects to all elementary and secondary school computers in the district. All students in these buildings can stream this DVD at their convenience.
For her school website a webmaster scans a cartoon image of Snoopy, colors it, and changes the words in the balloon to reflect the school?s motto. Charles Schulz, the cartoonist, is dead so the image of his famous dog is in the public domain.
Some of my students? assignments are outstanding! I scan them and put them into a PowerPoint presentation that I am making at a professional conference.
If an item does not display a copyright notice ?©?, it is considered to be in the public domain.
The drama teacher videotaped the school?s production of ?Wizard of Oz? which included the orchestra?s performance of favorite songs. Parents buy duplicated copies of these tapes for the drama club?s fund-raiser. Since it is a school performance, it is covered by the fair use clause.
Information found on the Internet may be freely printed off and duplicated for student and teacher use.
I can put a CD-ROM in a networked tower and use it with my entire class in the lab; the CD-ROM is also available to each classroom throughout the school as well as to each student?s home computer.
A teacher librarian can automatically make a backup copy of a videotape, DVD, CD-ROM, or musical CD to use with her/his students instead of using the original.
An educator is teaching an online course for college credit and streams a digitized video for all his/her students to view during the class.
For a class assignment, students creating multimedia projects take multiple segments from The Terminator accompained by songs of their choice from favorite CD?s.
A teacher records stories on CD?s so that the students can hear the story being read while they are reading the story in the books.
A student uses the school?s computers to access music files from Limewire or Kazaa, the school is not liable for a student?s copyright infringement in this case.
A school?s website accidentally links to another website which has materials violating the copyright law. Because the webmaster did not know of the website?s violation, he/she cannot be held liable for copyright violation.
