Karl David Knudson on tue 22 apr 97
On Mon, 21 Apr 1997, Kirk Morrison wrote:
> ----------------------------Original message----------------------------
> Yes you should be worried, because you would be reproducing the
> material, if it is a copyrighted item, then you would be violating the
> materials copyright. For none formally copyrighted items give credit
> to the orginal authors and your Web page would be legally okay. Also
> your web page will be an orginal complation work and there by
> copyrightable. Just avoid using copyrighted works, without permission
> of the authors.
There is a clause in the copyright laws concerning educational use of
copyrighted material. (It's why you can quote books in term papers without
permission.) You may have some justification along that line. BUT, by
publically and electronically posting that information to the WWW you have
distributed that information to all, which could cause the copyright
financial worries, which woudl bring you back into copyright trouble. It
would probably be better to ask permission than forgiveness in this case.
OR...
Have your students rewrite the information and recompile the data that
they learned in a different manner, keeping the basic ideas of what you
wanted to post. I'd still give credit to the original author for forming
the idea behind your new work, but it would be much less likely to get you
into trouble.
Anyone disagree?
Karl in Eugene
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