Re: Copyright question

[Susan Jones <sujones@PARKLAND.EDU>]

The IEP says the school is legally required to acquire certain things =AF =
but they do have to acquire them in legal ways.  THey can't steal them any =
more than they could steal an Alphasmart if the IEP said the child needed =
one. =20

Same rationalization as "it's for education, so it's okay." =20

Susan Jones
Academic Development Specialist
Academic Development Center
Parkland College
Champaign, IL  61821
sujones@parkland.edu
Webmastress,
http://www.resourceroom.net

>>> juliennelong@SBCGLOBAL.NET 09/24/04 08:12PM >>>
Tawana West asked:

 OK, now...do any of you know
if there is an exemption from copyright laws for special education, and/or
is it true that "equal
access" to education supersedes other laws?

I, too, would be interested in the answer.  I had a special ed teacher =
copy
almost all the books-on-tape in the library.  She kept the tapes in her
classroom.  She insisted that it was legal because the student was =
required
to have books-on-tape per her modifications.  I never felt that one could
overrule a law in that way.  The worst part was that whenever a teacher
needed a certain book-on-tape and it was not available, the teacher would
say, "Never mind.  I can get one from Mrs. so-and-so.  She has all of them
in her classroom!"


Julie Long
Librarian
Katy ISD
Texas

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