At 11:14 AM 10/7/97 -0600, Arthur Harris wrote: >At 09:28 PM 6/10/97 -0500, you wrote: >>Do I misunderstand from the paragraph below ... Is it all right to copy >>works because the school can't afford it, and if the teacher didn't copy it, >>the student couldn't get the benefit of it??? The statement that "material >>handed out if a very limited portion of the work is your assumption but does >>not fit with the facts. > >See Robert Baron's comments on the function of copyright law--it is not >solely to protect authors but also to advance knowledge, etc. > [etc.] For those following this thread, allow me to direct your attention to the copyright materials collected for the Kress-funded and College Art Association-sponsored "Portland Town Meeting." This recent symposium presented papers discussing the recent CONFU (Committee on Fair Use) Guidelines on the use of Digital Materials, Distance Learning and Multi-media. To access these materials, refer to http://oregon.uoregon.edu/~csundt/documents.htm At the bottom of the list of supporting materials you can find a few of the papers delivered during the conference. Robert Baron [log in to unmask] http://www.pipeline.com/~rabaron/index.htm