A colleague who is somewhat of an expert on copyright in schools had this to say
when I passed your question on:
In my opinion this is a violation of copyright. If a student were making a poetry
collection for an assignment I believe it would be allowed (student's have
different rights under Fair Use than teachers), but for a teacher or a school
district to collect these works and duplicate them for students is an egregious
violation. It is done explicitly for the purpose of providing those works to
students in lieu of purchasing an existing anthology. If you remember back when you
were an undergrad some professors used to do that, creating their own booklets of
readings you had to buy at Kinko's. That was ruled an infringement and they can't
do that any more. It's the same situation.
Kristi Hazelrigg
Media Specialist, Parkview Elementary
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>>> "Thomas M. Stream" <tstream67@YAHOO.COM> 07/27/09 08:45 AM >>>
We're having a philosphical discussion. In creating an anthology of poetry for our
different grade levels to use in writing, it was suggested that we collect
different complete poems from different poetry collections retype them and reprint
them within our district.
Viewpoint 1 - It is ok to do this because each poem is no more than 1/12 of the
collection it came from. This is ok because of fair use.
Viewpoint 2 - Each poem is a complete work. It doesn't matter what the ratio is
because it is like taking just one song from a record/CD/etc. This is a violation
of copyright regardless of fair use.
Thanks for your help in deciding this because the building we're in doesn't have a
copy of Copyright for Educators.
Tom Stream
LIbrary Media Specialist
Grand Haven Area Public Schools
Grand Haven, MI
tstream67@yahoo.com
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