Re: Email Copyright

["Sharron L. McElmeel" <SMcElmeel@CEDAR-RAPIDS.K12.IA.US>]

I'm just wondering if this indeed is correct as an instructor can legally
make a copy of a "periodical article" for her/his class, if the article is
timely and the discovery of the article (read e-mail message) meets the
immediacy test.  So distributing at an in-service training session I would
deem "fair-use" as long as the distribution was not repeated another term,
without permission.  Distributing to a list serve however, would, I believe
be a different story as that is more akin to republishing considering there
is no identifiable "class" and that the responses are archived (as in
published).   Comments?
Sharron.
>        In the November issue of the magazine from the National Education
>Association, NEA Today, there was an article about copyright.  The article
>is titled: What's Wrong To Copy Under Copyright?
>        I thought members of this listserv might like to know what was
>said about Email.  The question posed asked:
>        "As part of an E-mail discussion group, you receive a teaching
>tip. You print it out and distribute 30 copies at an in-service training.
>Is this an infringment of copyright?
>        The answer:  "YES.  All E-mail is protected by copyright. You need
>the sender's permission to make copies and display the message publicly.
>

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Sharron L. McElmeel   (mailto:smcelmeel@cedar-rapids.k12.ia.us)
Library Media Specialist-Harrison Elem. Cedar Rapids, IA
http://www.cedar-rapids.k12.ia.us/Harrison/harrison.html
http://www.aea10.k12.ia.us/literacy/
personal page -- http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/5868/
Author of AN AUTHOR A MONTH (series), BOOKPEOPLE (series), and Educator's
Companion to Children's Literature (and other titles from Libraries
Unlimited), as well as, co-Author (with Carol Simpson) of INTERNET FOR
SCHOOLS (Linworth, 1997)
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