Re: [LM_NET] Copyright & AR

[Barbara Fritz <fritzlibrary@YAHOO.COM>]

Someting similar happen in one of our school with
disks for Microsoft Office and Filemaker Pro. I
contacted our vendors and they said we had paid for
the product and could use disks we had in district
other buildings to load the programs. Problem solved.


--- Janice Askew <jma0525@EARTHLINK.NET> wrote:

> Happy Holidays,
>
> About 4 years ago, my school system purchased
> McMillan's basal reader
> for grades 3-5 that had AR tests for each story.
> The AR tests have
> been downloaded for grades 3 & 5.  However, the disk
> was lost or
> misplaced for my 4th graders.  The 4th grade teacher
> did not realize
> that a disk of AR tests were provided until I
> brought it to her
> attention.  Now that my school is pushing AR, we
> would like to download
> the tests.  I wanted to borrow the 4th grade disk
> from another school
> in our district, but we are uncertain of copyright
> regulations.  If I
> borrowed the AR disk from another school, would I be
> violating
> copyright laws?  The school name is printed on each
> disk, but the AR
> tests are the same.  I didn't think it would violate
> copyright if the
> school system purchased the tests, but the media
> specialist at my
> neighboring school is not certain.
>
> Could someone please advise me of my options?
>
>
> Janice M. Askew
> Media Coordinator
> T. S. Cooper Elem.
> Sunbury, NC  27979
> jma0525@earthlink.net
>
>
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Barbara FritzElementary Librarian (K-5)Bloomsburg Area School DistrictBloomsburg 
PAfritzlibrary@yahoo.com



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