Well, I am still puzzled by the cartoon thing as being defined as
"whole". If I copy a single cartoon out of a book which contains
several hundred--i.e., Gary Larson has several farside cartoon books
out there, each with several hundred cartoons--then it is hardly
"whole".
Furthermore, if I don't distribute it, but just show it on an
overhead then how is this really different than if I just bring
in the book and pass it around with that one cartoon highlighted
somehow?---putting it on the overhead is simply more expedient.
This really is a gray and fuzzy area. Furthermore, I think an
argument could be made that if a student finds some of the comics
funny they will be motivated to go out and buy an entire book of
them even if they are not related to their class.
Lastly, if I take a cartoon from the newspaper, and the paper has
something like 50+ cartoons on the funny pages, then that also
doesn't seem like a "whole" item--it is 1/50th. Does the copyright
belong to the paper? to the author? and if the latter, does it
go by day, by week by month, by contractual period.
It seems that this is a sufficently complicated issue that
"reasonable ignorance" is a factor.
annette
Annette Taylor, Ph. D.
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