Well  that is not what the appeals court said when they admonished her for
setting a 10% or one chapter "rule" . Since that part of the decision was
actually and specifically overturned and sent back it probably is not worth
arguing over especially since both sides objected ( for different reasons)
but the Appeals court was very clear that it considered her ruling to
contain an explicit 10% one chapter rule which they rejected.

Pretty much everyone on every side agrees there is no magic percentage or
amount that constitutes "fair use" which is what drives librarians ( and
rights holders) crazy



On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 5:33 PM, Shoaf,Judith P <jsh...@ufl.edu> wrote:

> 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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