Each copy must include a notice of copyright. In any event, the minimum is 500 words. An excerpt of no more than two pages and no more than 10 percent of the words may be copied. Cumulative Effect Teachers are limited by the guidelines to using the copied material for only one course in the school in which copies are made. No more than one short poem, article, story or two excerpts from the same author may be copied, and no more than three works can be copied from a collective work or periodical volume during one class term.
Teachers are limited to nine instances of multiple copying for one course during one class term.
The limitations, however, do not apply to current news periodicals, newspapers, and current news sections of other periodicals. The guidelines prohibit using copies to replace or substitute for anthologies, compilations or collective works. Teachers cannot substitute copies for the purchase of books, publisher's reprints or periodicals, nor can they repeatedly copy the same item from term to term. The act gives protection to libraries beyond the fair use section. In addition, non-commercial broadcasts for the blind or deaf and nonprofit performances of dramatic works transmitted to the blind by radio are exempt from copyright liability under the 1976 act.