Case+16+-+Mr.+Sanchez's+Dilemma

//Case Study // Mr. Sanchez is a new teacher in the district of Newark. He is a third grade teacher and has been asking other teachers how he can use new resources he has for children. Mr. Sanchez decided to take matters into his own hands and ask the principal if there was a way the school can purchase new reading textbooks that were up to date for the children because the textbooks the students had were already 15 years old and were very out of date. Mr. Sanchez looked over his resources in August of the new year and when he requested the new textbooks the principal recommended he use the old textbooks because the new textbooks would not be available until the month of November. The book Mr. Sanchez wants for the class is called “Decisions in Reading”, and it has 15 chapters. Mr. Sanchez’s plan was to have the children read one chapter each month followed by one quiz. Since Mr. Sanchez now has to wait until November, he has decided to make 14 copies of chapter one and chapter two in order for the students to have readings that are up to date as opposed to the 15 year old textbooks so he can still follow his lesson plan. Before proceeding to make the 14 copies, Mr. Sanchez got approval from the principal to ensure it wouldn’t interfere with the textbook and the purchasing. Mr. Sanchez made 14 copies of the title page, the two chapters, and the copy right information just to make sure he was following proper copyright laws.

//Commentary // Because Mr. Sanchez used only two chapters in the book “Decisions in Reading” he was able to make the copies because it followed rules of copyright and it was not endangering the profit the editor of the text book would make. The copies that Mr. Sanchez made were used only for educational purposes and did not prevent the sales of the textbooks. The other part that made this option usable was because Mr. Sanchez made a copy of the title page noting the editor of the text book or it would have been illegally making copies of the pages he needed. Once November came around Mr. Sanchez was given the new books and the students each had their own textbook to use as opposed to using the copies of paper. Additionally, the textbooks that Mr. Sanchez was making copies of were already ordered for the students, and thus for each copy made, a book was purchased.