The followup question to that is to ask for the name of the intellectual
property attorney who gave that advice, so you could have a professional
opinion on file.
If you search the archives (remember to use boolean operators in your
search) for "special and education" you will find many similar queries.
And the mostly negative answers.
Dan Robinson
HW Wilson Company
Bronx, NY
drobinson@hwwilson.com
> Today during an inservice meeting, I was sharing with my faculty some
> information on copyright from the recent issue of an AASL publication. I
> said that it was against copyright for a teacher to read a book and make an
> audiotape of it. The Special Education teacher said that just last week he
> was in a meeting with representatives from our State Department of
> Education and they told him that he should make tapes of books for his
> students to use. I said that perhaps there were exemptions made for
> special education. The SE teacher said that federal guidelines for "equal
> access" to education over-rode any copyright laws.
> OK, now...do any of you know
> if there is an exemption from copyright laws for special education, and/or
> is it true that "equal access" to education supercedes other laws? Thanks,
> Tawana
>
>
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