Case+21+-+Mrs.+Rios's+Chemistry+Charts

==== Mrs. Rios’s Chemistry Charts Mrs. Rios teaches high school general chemistry. She is currently teaching her students about chemical reactions. The chemistry textbook covers 5 types of chemical reactions: synthesis, decomposition, single-replacement, double-replacement and combustion. After being taught to identify each type of chemical reactions the students will be taught to identify the products of each type of chemical reaction. In order to identify the products of a chemical reaction the students need a periodic table and an activity series chart. Although both of these charts are posted on the classroom wall, Mrs. Rios worries some of her students will have trouble reading them from their seats. The teacher’s edition textbook also has textbook sized copies of both of these charts. Mrs. Rios uses a Xerox machine to copy both of these charts from the teacher’s edition textbook. She uses one sheet of paper, front and back to make the copies and distributes them to her students. She makes 75 copies in total. Although the textbook is copyrighted material, she feels as though she is not breaking any copyright laws because she made a limited number of copies for educational use. ====

====// Commentary //// Mrs. Rios’s usage of the chart is indeed fair usage of copyrighted material. Several factors are taken into account when coming to this conclusion. First Mrs. Rios is using the material for nonprofit educational use. She is not selling the charts. //Mrs. Rio's used the copies of the chart to improve the quality of her educational lesson, and she did not change or modify the information copied. // Second Mrs. Rios only made 75 copies, one for each student. She did not make any additional copies. Third the charts are taken from the teacher’s edition textbook. This textbook was purchased by the school and therefore obtained legally. //Also, the teacher's edition textbook that she made the copies from was not intended to be sold to individual students. // Finally the charts are only two pages of the entire 1000 page textbook. These two pages will not affect the future sale of the book. //====