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Fair Use Remind
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=**Digital Drivers License:**= After taking the DDL test I feel that while it is important it could have been a bit shorter. Most of the questions in every area other than Digital Law were common sense questions anyway. Digital Law wasn't actually one of the category titles tested but it was covered in the last category. I disagree with the test answers for some digital law questions. I feel that after doing research and a presentation on copyright issues that the law for fair use as interpreted by the supreme court makes more allowances for educational purposes than the test answers did. There really just two ways for a teacher to be in noncompliance with fair use. One, the teacher is making use of materials created expressly for sale/use in educational institutions yet these materials were copied or used without fees to or license from the copyright holder or agent. The other is to use any copyrighted material under the guise of educative purposes yet they are really used as a reward (movies/games etc.) or a way to keep kids entertained so that the teacher can be doing things other than being directly engaged with students. If JCPS or KDE policy doesn't match constitutional law on that then I believe this needs to be looked at again and changed.

" The primary objective of copyright is not to reward the labor of authors but to promote the progress of science and the useful arts. To this end copyright assures authors the right to their original expression, but encourages others to build freely upon the ideas and information conveyed by a work. This result is neither unfair nor unfortunate. It is the means by which copyright advances the progress of science and art." Justice Sandra Day O'Connor Feist Publications, Inc. v. Rural Telephone Service Co. 499 US 340, 349(1991)

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