Wayne Mackintosh <mackintosh.wa...@gmail.com> writes: > > Register for the next Open Content Licensing for Educators > <http://wikieducator.org/OCL4Ed>workshop :-). > > This is a free professional development opportunity on OER, Copyright and
Thank you for the tip; > In short you will need to consult your national copyright act to identify > whether there are any specific educational exceptions which would cover the > practice you suggest. Ok; I am in the USA. I should have written that up-front. > However, in most countries, restricting access to students for scanned > copies of all-rights reserved texts would not qualify as fair dealing -- > format shifting is not permitted under "standard" copyright. Your > institution may participate in a licensing arrangement, which in return for > a fee, may permit these activities (But this is not a fair dealing / fair > usage practice.) So in this digital age, for me to assign my students to read ten pages from a book, they would have to physically check out the book on reserve in the library rather than read a PDF on the web? That seems rather draconian. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
