Copyright Question (fwd)

I'm forwarding this for a colleague. Please reply directly to her. Carol Simpson
<csimpson[_at_]tenet.edu>

• Forwarded message ---------- Can you help?

    One of our elementary media specialists has some very enthusiastic     4th graders that have asked her if they could bring in their own     copies of several Sega, Nintendo, and Genesis type programs to RENT     OUT to other kids for $.50 - $1.00/ week. The proceeds would go     toward buying new library books. She told the kids there might be a     copyright problem since there is money involved. They then asked her     why a video store could rent them out and she told them they might     have to pay some kind of a fee or have a license to do that.

    I'm really unsure of the interpretation. I know that home use is     different from school/educational use.

    Thanks,

    Sheryl Steinke
    steinke[_at_]4j.lane.edu Received on Sun Jan 16 1994 - 02:18:50 GMT