On 6/25/98, Michael A Scarpitti <mscarpit[_at_]asnt.org> wrote:
>
> 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.
Well, case law , the statute, and the legislative history all flatly state that the exception is much broader than this. Any misapprehension on the part of academia is doubtless due to the fact that educational uses are specified throughout as being entitled to special treatment. I would agree that educators habitually push the envelope past the permissable point, but some classroom distributions are quite defensible.
James
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