THe fair use clause says that you can distribute info for class purposes,
unless it infringes on the market value of the text. How does this relate to
class handouts. What does this mean in real life? Can I distribute articles?
chapters? books? Comics? Whatever I distribute means that the students don't
have to but the book or magazine it came from. Isn't this automatically
infringing on the market value of the text? I don't really understand how
this works.
--Eric Hoffman
Jim Thomas wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Jul 1998, Warner Winborne wrote:
>
> > Copyrighted material does not mean that the material can not be
> > copied. However, such a copy must constitute "Fair Use".
> > Unfortunately for us, but fortunately for the legal profession, the
> > definition of "fair use" is vague. Here's an excerpt from a listserv
>
> Actually, it's quite fortunate for us that the the concept of "fair use"
> is broad and vague. It allows academics and critics far more latitude
> in reproducing excerpts of others for non-commercial purposes (eg, class,
> scholarship, critique).
>
> jt