The Quad - Copyright and Education

Instructors at educational institutions often display copyright-protected materials in classes or distribute excerpts from such materials to students. Copyright law tries to promote the broader public good by balancing the economic interests of creators in benefiting from their works with the interests of users to access, draw from, and build on those works. To that end, the Copyright Act gives specific recognition to the use of copyright-protected materials for education....

Adrian Sheppard - 20 November 2017