What if the students don't buy the book? Copyright question

[Cynthia Porter <cporter@xxxxxxxx>]

In discussing Fair Use with faculty, I told them that copying images for a
classroom presentation from a required textbook was permissible because
there was no significant effect on the market.  The publisher was still
profiting, since the students bought the book anyway.  One professor posed
the question, *What if the students don't buy the book?*  He has witnessed
many students who print out the Power Point slides and use those to study.
Is that something we have to worry about?

His question reminded me of some text I found in the Copyright Clearance
Center's web page, "The library must have no reason to believe that the
reproduction will be used for purposes other than private study,
scholarship and research" (from
http://www.copyright.com/Services/copyrightoncampus/basics/fairuse_archive.html).
I think that the faculty automatically assumes that the students are going
to abuse the resources, so they prevent access.  Then the students complain
because they don't have study materials.  It is impossible to make both
sides happy. ;)

Thank you for your time.


Cynthia

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Cynthia Porter
cporter@xxxxxxxx
Distance Support Librarian
A.T. Still Memorial Library, Arizona
A.T. Still University
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