The Fair Use Copyright Policy

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This paper relates that teachers and students are pirating copyrighted material from the internet and other sources in violation of the copyright laws because schools cannot afford to supply all the needed materials for grades K-12. The author points out that policy makers could relax the fair use laws so that they are better suited to regulate the characteristics of the new technology; however, the substantial influence of copyright holders in the political process means that this approach is unlikely to prevail. The paper stresses that that the use of copyrighted materials such as drawings, photos and music without the owner's permission, especially for non-educational purposes, should remain illegal.

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"The needs of poorer K-12 educational districts have reported other results. Covington, Mississippi spent just $19.55 per student on textbooks in that period, and just $61.44 on other instructional materials, according to Market Data Retrieval. The same patterns of widely varied funding would apply to public libraries, on which so many students rely. Today Beverly Hills, California, is spending some $34 per citizen per year on library materials, while cash-strapped Shasta County in the same state is spending just 25 cents."

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