What are the legal implications of copying an image/chart to print out for a Small Group Bible Study that goes along with the topic you're teaching on? Is this legally allowed?
Jason Saling
This sounds like it falls under the fair use exception to copy-righted material. Basically the fair use doctrine allows limited copying for educational or journalistic purposes. If you are just distributing (for free) some materials to a small group you should be fine.
I can't be more specific because there is no hard and fast definition of "fair use," a judge/jury get to evaluate each case if a copy-right holder decides to sue.
Prov. 15:23
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I have always in my 5 years of teaching copied and used for educational use pages from a book and verified each time with the principal if I could. I would take one full section of a chapter from various texts.
William