[nzlug] Re: NZLUG Digest, Vol 31, Issue 7

[cr]

On Tuesday 08 January 2008 23:46, Simon Bridge wrote:

(massive snippage for bandwidth  :)

> More recently, a discussion of copyright for material used for teaching
> was broached as part of an ACE Teacher Training course. It transpired
> that nobody knew, so the school hired a lawyer to spell it out and the
> results were still confusing.... 

What did they expect?   <g>

I've never known a lawyer give a straight answer yet.   They'll tell you what 
the law says then tell you it all depends on how a court would interpret 
that.    

> especially when related to a work which 
> itself was a collection of other works... at that time, you could copy
> 10% of a complete work for teaching purposes, which doesn't leave much
> of a haiku. But it explains a lot about teaching notes.

cr