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Case Study Ms. Jones works in an urban school district, at the high school. Ms. Jones has only been working in this district for two years. Ms. Jones has a degree in special education, and is teaching English and Mathematics this school year. Ms. Jones is planning her curriculum and has discovered that she does not have enough of the books she wants to read. Ms. Jones thinks to herself, “what am I going to do? If a student doesn’t have a book they will surely mess around and not know what is going on in the book!” Ms. Jones decides that she is going to copy the book to have enough for each student to have a copy.

Is it ethical for Ms. Jones to copy the book? If you think she should copy the book, how much of the book should she copy at once? Does it matter how much of the book she copies at one time?

If you would like to know more on this matter please take a look at the Articles page of this website. The article titled Chou-Chein Copyright Laws is a great article that discusses, in detail, the do's and don'ts involved in copyright laws. Another article that touches on this topic is the article written by D'Amico. This article focuses on issues that a distance professor would face with copyright laws. This is a great article because many classes are online based and would directly relate.