[LM_NET] Fw: [LM_NET] Copyright on Comic

[Pointer <jpointer03@HOTMAIL.COM>]

I actually emailed them asking about permission for exactly that purpose
(you can see my request below), as "giving it to colleagues" didn't seem
to me to fit into what their own online definition of educational uses
was. But they wrote back saying, and I quote: "permission is fine. This
still applies to your use also".
You could email them a permission request and see what they say? Perhaps
if several of us point out that their wording doesn't imply "pass around
to teachers", they might alter it... (sorry, I don't have their original
email address now, but I know I found it on the For Better or for Worse
website under "permissions")

my request to them at :
"Hello!
I am a teacher-librarian in a high school in Toronto Canada.
I am most interested in the "for Better or for Worse" series of strips
from Tuesday Dec. 7 04, through to today, and perhaps a couple of more
days if the story line continues. They absolutely put across the ideas
we are trying to teach our kids in the library. I would like to reprint
them and pass them to our TEACHERS in our school, so I can show them
what we can help them with in the library, OR perhaps just to post in
the library for the classes that come down. I am seeking permission for
this use. I am not a classroom teacher per se, so cannot just show them
to one class; I am a teacher-librarian who works with all teachers in
the school and all classes."

(I have quoted the relevant part of their permission to me above; I
don't want to copy their whole email here as a further copyright issue
;-)

Lisa J. Dempster, Library Specialist
Monarch Park Collegiate
Toronto Ontario Canada
http://schools.tdsb.on.ca/monarch/dept/library/
(this email address jpointer03@hotmail.com is immediate but temporary-
used strictly for listservs to avoid spam & I change it periodically-
but people -not spam-machines-  can always find me through the website!)



----- Original Message -----
From: "Lee Ann Marona" <Lawmarona@AOL.COM>
To: <LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU>
Sent: Friday, January 07, 2005 9:52 PM
Subject: [LM_NET] Copyright on Comic


Dear LM_NETTERS,

Remember the For Better or For Worse comic series from December 7-11
pertaining to research that one of you highlighted for us?  I thought it
was a great
opportunity for highlighting the need for teaching information literacy,
so I
clipped the five strips from my local newspaper, taped them together and
photocopied to give my faculty and six fellow media specialists.  One of
my media
specialist colleagues was concerned about this use being a copyright
infringement.  Is she right?

Thanks for your expertise and wisdom,

Lee Ann Marona
Library Media Specialist
Brentwood Elementary
Pensacola, FL 32533
lmarona@escambia.k12.fl.us

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