Quote Originally Posted by Raptor View Post
This bill also has the ability to impact colleges. My english instructor scanned part of a book in order for us to analyze the essay. She uploaded the picture to the course website. Under this law, that would have gotten the college website taken down.
That would depend on whether or not they change the feds' definitions on "fair use."

It is 100% legal for schools to copy & distribute parts of books under fair use [currently]. They do not have to ask the publisher for permission first. This has been true since the 70s. Something to think about the next time your school forces you to buy all these expensive textbooks [why to schools do that? because most of them are in the publishing industry themselves and either have a textbook press facility, or require their teachers to publish periodically in addition to teaching]. It would be easy for a college level course to give you one textbook excerpt as a hand out, then a different one the next week, etc. They just don't like the idea.