[LM_NET] TAR: copyright question

[Olive Woodward <woodwardo@DOVERSHERBORN.ORG>]

Two 6th grade social studies teachers in the building have written a grant
(and have been awarded the funding) to buy a set of picture books for each
of their classrooms - four copies of each selected picture book, each to
go with a unit of ancient history. They have also included in the grant
the request to make a complete set of color overhead transparency copies
of each picture book (two sets in fact, one for each classroom). They are
planning to go to Staples to make the color transparencies. Is this a
violation of fair use (because they were copying whole works in their
entirety)? Or is it fair use, since they will be purchasing four copies of
each title anyway, and the overhead transparencies are not intended to
replace or circumvent the purchase of copyrighted material?

Olive Woodward
Library/Media Specialist
Dover-Sherborn Middle School
155 Farm Street
Dover, MA  02030

woodwardo@doversherborn.org
(508) 785-0635 x7117

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