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Old 02-18-2010, 02:35 PM   #8
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Originally Posted by dmaul1114 View Post
Yeah, my university is being sued for fair use violations related distributing copies of articles, one chapter of a book etc. to students for course use, use of material in course lectures etc. University is arguing it's fair use since it's factual information and not harming the sales as students wouldn't buy the book to read one chapter etc.

I'm very interested to see how that case, and others like the one in the post above turn out.
There was a case here in Australia about 17 years ago where the Victoria University of Technology (now known as Victoria University) was taken to court for the exact same issues. They were proiducing course booklets of reccomended readings, never more that one chapter of a book. The university won the case and it is now standard practice to produce such course booklets.
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