Case Studies

     I've been helping one of my faculty members assemble a body of case histories concerning scientific misconduct. He wants to use the material in his classes and make his collection available to other teachers for use in their classes. If the histories are based on real-life incidents, as presented in copyrighted articles and letters to the editors of such publications as the New York Times or Science Weekly, do we run a risk of copyright infringement by paraphrasing the basic facts of the story? Perhaps it's more of a libel question, but what would be the minimum change required to distribute (for purposes of classroom study,) a real-life, but unsubstantiated incident of unethical behavior without fear of "getting into too much trouble".

Alexa Jaffurs
ajaffurs[_at_]eagle.wesleyan.edu Received on Tue Jan 25 1994 - 01:05:27 GMT