Jessica noted: "not that it really matters here but pretty sure the judge in the GSU did propose 10% as some absolute max which had the amusing result of upsetting both sides."
What she said was that the 10%/1 chapter of a book with more than 10 chapters is a "decidedly small" amount, not a maximum: "Excerpts which fall within these limits are decidedly small, and allowable as such under factor three." At one point she noted "the Court finds that copying two full chapters out of an eight chapter book, exceeding 20% of the protected material, is not a decidedly small amount. Indeed, it is a large amount." --though not "decidely large!!!" She also stressed that the 1976 Classroom Guidelines do not give a maximum fair amount: "the purpose of the Guidelines was to state the minimum and not the maximum standards of educational fair use." She came back several times to the idea that guidelines give a minimum, completely safe amount, not a maximum fair amount. Judy
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