[LM_NET] TARGET: AudioBook Copyright Violation

[Maury Brown <mbrown4@K12ALBEMARLE.ORG>]

A teacher wants to purchase an audiobook of Othello online, download it,
and put the link on her password-protected website for her students to
listen to at home. Is this a copyright violation?

 

If it is password-protected, it is not available to the general public,
so it is not distributed freely. It is used in instruction, by a
teacher, for students, but this is a digital situation, not a
face-to-face one. It seems akin to digitizing an article and putting it
online for student use, via a password protected site. However, it is
the WHOLE work. What is the difference in doing this (making it
available only to that teachers' students online) and playing it out
loud in a classroom? 

 

Thoughts?

 

Maury Brown

Library Media Specialist

Western Albemarle High School

5941 Rockfish Gap Turnpike

Crozet, VA 22932

434-823-8700 x 6055

 


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