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Fair use protection for educators

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Sheryl Ann McCoy (smccoy)
Wed, 28 Oct 1998 21:21:19 -0700

Greetings to all:
The following is excerpted from NSTA Update. I hope this helps everyone rest a bit easier.
Sheryl

New Digital Copyright Law Passed

The education community won a victory passage of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998. The law allows "fair use protection" for educators and librarians to cover the Internet, CD-ROMs, and other devices. Fair use provisions allow educators to sample and excerpt copyrighted works.

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On Wed, 28 Oct 1998 10:10:23   Joseph Augusta wrote:
>Sears, Ellen wrote:
>> 
>> Did anyone else read the New York Times article on:
>> "Four Drawings, No Longer Modern, Have Left MOMA"? October 26.  Taken from
>> the article:
>
>Hi Ellen--didn't read this article, but when I find interesting things
>in the NY Times, I post the URL rather than quote from the newspaper
>since the Times owns the copyright and expressly forbids reposting or
>forwarding without their permission.
>
>Best wishes,
>Joseph
>




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