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>> If schools really wanted to teach it, it would be well within fair use laws for them to show the whole thing. > > No, not a chance. Even a few paragr

>> If schools really wanted to teach it, it would be well within fair use laws for them to show the whole thing. > > No, not a chance. Even a few paragraphs would likely get them smashed, especially if they're the most interesting of the speech. > Actually we had to memorize a significant portion of the speech for my eighth grade AP English class, in addition to watching the speech, and talking about the context. This was part of a larger section on civil rights coordinated with our History lessons. I'm not a lawyer, but I'm fairly certain that educational programs are allowed to do whatever they want wrt. copyright as long as they can show educational value and aren't directly profiting off of reproducing the copyrighted work. http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html

dllthomas 13y ago
If that were true, there wouldn't be a market for textbooks.
- yeahbutbut 13y ago
  Not necessarily. The material teachers distribute to classes come out of their budget (ink and paper aren't free). And the time taken to compile an entire course from scratch would not be insignificant. The copyrighted works we were shown and given access to in class were supplements to the textbooks we were using.
masklinn 13y ago
> I'm not a lawyer, but I'm fairly certain that educational programs are allowed to do whatever they want wrt. copyright You're wrong. Educational programs have a specific exemption for performing or displaying lawfully acquired copyrighted works in a classroom setting: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/110 http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/110 but that's the extent of it, they most definitely are not allowed to reproduce copyrighted work whether profiting of it or not.