It surprises me to no end that so many academic types find it "inconvenient" to pay for rights to works. The "fair use" principle has been stretched way beyond reason. If I, as a single individual, visit a college library on a research mission and find discussions on my topic in several books , I may certainly copy a few pages for my use as a convenience so that I do not have to check the books out (and carry them around!): that is what "fair use" is. I certainly do not have, however, the right to compile a workbook comprising hundreds of pages from these (copyrighted) works and then have them reproduced en masse for a course or the like, without asking for and receiving permission.
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