The Guide to Teaching

Using Newspapers in the Classroom

Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 15:45:47 -0600
From: Gary Klass <pos209s1@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>

Patrick is right that the Fair Use law is very ambiguous (see Ted Lowi).
I favor a liberal interpretation for classroom use, but making a
copyrighted article available to the whole world, rather than just copies
for students, seems to go a bit beyond this.

For classroom use, I suggest that a password-protected directory of
documents -- fair use documents that otherwise could be xeroxed legally and
distributed to a class --might be OK. Once the law is clarified, however,
you will probably find your university imposing limitations even on this.

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