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__**Copyright Case**__ In this particular School District, new administrators decided to train all recently hired staff. Since assuming their positions, they implemented courses once or twice a month for the entire school year. These classes are named according to the experience of the teachers attending it. For example, “First Step Class” will be for first year teachers in the District.

Last year, the “Second Step Class” was under the guidance of an elementary school teacher. Since most of the teachers hired were for the middle school level, I believe the administrators decided to give the leadership for the “Third Step Class” to a middle school teacher, Mrs. Moor. She is a tenured Social Studies teacher with 10 years of experience, and was asked by the School Board to perform training for 8 third year teachers. This class was meant to instruct educators in different topics, such as differentiating instruction, parent communications and classroom management. Mrs. Moor, in order to cover some of these topics, made copies of articles from different magazines and excerpts from books to use as handouts. Teachers received their copies during class, and kept them after class. They worked with them by analyzing and discussing the topic assigned. During class, she mentioned the name of the magazines and books used, and how to order them if the teachers were interested. Keep in mind that this is the first year that Mrs. Moor is guiding a class for teachers. Commentary

Mrs. Moor's usage of the handouts falls within the Fair Use policy. The handouts Mrs. Moor had were not for commercial use, but rather for educational purposes. The amount of copies made, and the portion of the articles and books used for classroom discussions and training, were minimal. Mrs. Moor can also declare that the effect of the use upon the potential market was zero, since these copies were free and never intended to be sold.