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The very first copyright law in the US was officially called "An Act for the Encouragement of Learning." Indeed, that was the actual stated purpose of copyright law at the time. It wasn't supposed to be a system for protecting the...

Your district may be breaking copyright laws and not even know it. Here's how to protect yourself from liability.

For instance, Omaha (NE) Public Schools' copyright guidelines permit the use of only 250 words from a poem, 1,000 words from a book, three minutes of a video, 30 seconds of a song, or five images from a collective work. These local copyright policies have been known to stretch on for pages, though, and in this ever-changing digital environment, trying to guess at every potential copyright opportunity is becoming impossible. Nevertheless, both fair use and the educational guidelines do provide some flexibility to schools in using copyrighted material.