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The traditional classroom or face-to-face teaching is when the instructor and the students of a nonprofit educational institution are in a place devoted to instruction and the teaching and learning take place at the same time. In this setting all performances and displays of a work are allowed.

Requirements:

  1. All materials must be legally acquired.
  2. Instruction must take place in a classroom or a similar place devoted to instruction.

If the use falls outside the classroom experience, then the Fair Use Analysis should be applied. Permission is required if the use is not fair use and the classroom exemptions do not apply.

Copyrighted materials used the in the traditional classroom include:

 

 

Definitions

Perform - To "Perform" a work means to recite, render, play, dance, or act it, either directly or by means of any device or process, or, in the case of a motion picture or other audiovisual work, to show images in any sequence or to make the sounds accompanying it audible.

Display - To "Display" a work means to show a copy of it, either directly or by means of a film slide, television image, or any other device or process or, in the case of a motion picture or other audiovisual work, to show individual images nonsequentially.

 

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