Copyright laws ensure that fair returns are made to the copyright owners-either the publisher or the author, or both. Unlawful reproduction of copyrighted material infringes on the rights of the creator of the material and hinders the future production of intellectual materials. A. Not necessarily. For example, a professor may make copies of a complete poem if less than 250 words or an excerpt of a longer poem, not more than 250 words. A professor may make limited copies of one chart, graph, diagram, drawing, cartoon or picture per book or per periodical issue.
Spontaneity means that the copying occurs at the instance and inspiration of the professor.
The decision and inspiration to use the material occurs so close to the time the material is needed as a teaching tool that it becomes unreasonable to expect a timely permission response. Spontaneity does not occur when a professor decides three weeks in advance to copy an article from Fortune Magazine . Specifically, there cannot be more than nine instances of multiple copying for one course during one class term. Most published works contain a copyright notice, either on the title page or the acknowledgments page. If you have a photocopy of the work, you should go to the original source for the copyright citation.