http://www.21apples.org/ en-us 40 21apples comments <p>Our friends in the <a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/links/" target=_blank>Legislature</a> created law that allows educators to use copywritten material in their classrooms&#8212;it&#8217;s called <i>Fair Use</i>. There are restrictions of course. With those restrictions comes an hyper-complicated set of rules that you need a team of lawyers to decipher.</p> There are some good groups out there trying to make these rules as easy to understand as possible. Try these if you need some help: <ul> <li>The <a href="http://www.lib.jmu.edu/Org/MLA/" target=_blank>Music Library Association</a> at <a href="http://www.jmu.edu/" target=_blank>James Madison University</a> has one of the shortest, but thorough, explanations on <a href="http://www.lib.jmu.edu/Org/MLA/Guidelines/Accepted%20Guidelines/Educational%20Photocopying.asp" target=_blank>classroom photocopying</a>.</li> <li>the <a href="http://www.jmu.edu/" target=_blank>Stanford Copyright and Fair Use Center</a> has more than you ever wanted to know on this topic</li> <li>Straight from the horse&#8217;s mouth &#8211; the <a href="http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html" target=_blank>U.S. Copyright Office writeup on fair use</a></li> </ul> Fri, 25 Feb 2005 21:09:00 EST <a href="/articles/2005/02/25/abusing-the-photocopier">Abusing the Photocopier</a> <a href="/articles/2005/02/25/abusing-the-photocopier">Abusing the Photocopier</a>