Being able to create lesson plans using clip art or music but not being able to share the lesson with other teachers seems to defeat the idea of copyright laws being slack for teachers. If the information is okay for one teacher to teach from what changes if another teacher uses the same lesson?
Using a Disney movie to entertain small children while parents are meeting with teachers seems like a harmless act. The school is not profiting from it and the children are not going to be selling bootlegged copies. It seems that the “public” viewing is stretched too far.
A teacher can use movies to get kids interested in the lessons but it is against the rules to create a compilation of the parts of the videos that you would use. It seems that just by combining more than one video it would do very little to change the use of the material.
I kind of agree with the rules if a school purchases a version of software then teachers cannot purchase alternate versions and also load those on the computers. However I think a school should be able to purchase the software title; no matter how many versions are released they should get the updates until the title of the software is no longer being upgraded.
If a school loads a software program that they bought onto a server more than one user should be allowed to use it at once. There is no chance of them making copies of the program that way and it is cutting down on the amount of waste produced when multiple disks have to be provided.
Having more students than software could be a problem from year to year based on class size. Making back-up disks is allowed but using them to make sure every student has access at the same time is not. It seems old fashioned to only allow one person at a time to use software that has been purchased legally.
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