Permitted
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Not Permitted
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Teachers: Single Copies
- Chapter of book
- Article from magazine or newspaper
- Short story, short essay, short poem
- Chart, graph, diagram, picture, or non-syndicated,non-copyrighted cartoon
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Teachers: Single Copies
- Several chapters of a book
- Several articles from a magazine or newspaper
- Copying consumables (workbooks, exercise sheets, tests)
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Teachers: Multiple Copies
If copying is for one course and you didn't have time to contact the publisher you may make copies of the following:
- Poem (complete or part as long as it is less than 250 words you are copying)
- Article, essay, or story less than 2,500 words
- An excerpt from an article, essay, or story less than 1,000 words or 10% of the piece (whichever is less)
- One chart, graph, diagram, picture, or non-syndicated,non-copyrighted cartoon per book or periodical
- Classroom quantities of current news articles if individual articles are not copyrighted
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Teachers: Multiple Copies
- Using/making copies of same material semester after semester
- Creating anthologies
- Copying consumables
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Audiovisual Materials
- Making an overhead of one page of one workbook
- Enlarging a map with an opaque projector for tracing but not duplicating color scheme, symbols, etc.
- Copying non-dramatic literary, audiovisual works for use by blind or deaf individuals
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Audiovisual Materials
- Copying audio tapes or video tapes for archival or backup purposes
- Reproducing musical words or converting from one form to another
- Copying any audiovisual work in its entirety
- Converting from one medium format to another
- Recording the text of a book or textbook onto an audiocassette
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Software
- Copying into RAM if copying is necessary to use the program
- One copy for archival purposes
- Back up copies of hard drives as long as they are not used to run another drive
- Library lending of public domain software
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Software
- Circulation of archival copy
- "Networking" software without license or permission
- Loading a single copy of a software program onto several computers for simultaneous use
- Making copies of copyrighted software for student use
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Databases
May download searches
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Databases
- Downloaded searches should not be retained
- Downloaded material may not be used to create a derivative work
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Internet
- Dowloading public domain software
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Internet
- Uploading copyrighted software to Internet for downloading
- Collecting materials off the Internet and compiling in a new work
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Graphics
If copying is spontaneous and there have not been more than nine occurrences of multiple copying for that course, teachers may make copies of the following:
- One graphic per book or periodical
- Multiple copies of a single graphic
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Graphics
- Copying an image from a coloring book for a worksheet
- Scanning a cartoon into a school newsletter
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