On 6/19/98, David Post <postd[_at_]erols.com> wrote:
>
> even in the 2d and 6th Circuits (not to mention the 3d Circuit, where
> my own institution is located), I can, in good faith, compile (without
> authorization) a single collection of (presumptively copyrighted)
> material together into a coursepack, bring it to the first class, and
> tell my students that they must make a single copy of this compilation
> for their own use in my class -- that, in other words, their own copying
> of this material constitutes fair use.
[snip]
> The practical side of this question is that I'm actually thinking
> of proceeding in this manner for one of my fall classes,
I was thinking a little more about this question, not so much from a legal standpoint, but from a practical, mechanical standpoint. How would this actually work? You have, let's say, 80 students. You bring in the coursepack, which is, what, a few hundred pages long?? You put it down on a table and you tell each student to take the master copy and go photocopy it and bring it back so the next student in line can take it? I'm not trying to make fun. I'm just wondering how it would work. Of course, if the class is small or the coursepack is very short, then the whole thing becomes easier, but as the class or coursepack size diminishes, the legal question probably diminishes as well. Anyway, just curious.
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