The Board of Education acknowledges that copyright law provides authors with the exclusive right to reproduce their materials in copies, to prepare derivative works from their materials, to distribute copies of their materials, and to perform and distribute the materials publicly.
The Superintendent of Schools shall develop and submit to the Board for approval, procedures which comply with copyright law to be followed by district personnel.
Ref:
- 17 U.S.C. §§101; 106; 107; 117; 201; 302
- Encyclopedia Britannica Educational Corporation v. Crooks, 542 F. Supp. 1155
(W.D.N.Y. 1982), 558 F. Supp. 1247 (1983) - Basic Books, Inc. v. Kinko’s Graphics Corp., 758 F. Supp. 1522 (SDNY 1991)
- H.R. Rep. No. 94-1476, 94th Cong., 2d Sess. (1976)
- U.S. Const., Art. I, §8, Cl. 8
Adoption date: May 27, 1997
Reviewed: August 28, 2017