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DOCUMENT RESUME ED 089 460 EA 006 047 TITLE NOLPE Conference Proceedings. INSTITUTION National Organization on Legal Problems of Education, Topeka, Kans. PUB DATE 68 NOTE 135p.; Papers presented at National Organizaticn on Legal Problems of Education Annual Meeting (13th, Miami Beach, Florida, November 8-10, 1967) AVAILABLE FROM National Organization on Legal Problems of Education, 825 Western Avenue, Topeka, Kansas 66606 ($1.00, postage due) EDRS PRICE MF-$0.75 HC-$6.60 PLUS POSTAGE DESCRIPTORS After School Activities; Collective Negotiation; Conference Reports; Copyrights; *Court Cases; Elementary Education; *Employment Problems; Higher Education; Juvenile Courts; *Legislation; Race Relations; School Integration; *School Law; Secondary Education; *Student Rights ABSTRACT The speeches in this compilation cover a variety of topics of contemporary interest. The authors discuss legislative and case law concerning copyrights, student rights, minors' rights, extraccuricular activities, eminent domain, race relations, and employer-employee relations. (JF) U S DEPARTMENTOF HEALTH, EDUCATION WELFARE NATIONAL INSTITUIE OF EDUCATION THIS DOCUMENT HAS BEEN REPRO DUCE0 EXACTLY AS RECEIVED FROM THE PERSON OR ORGANIZATION ORIGIN ATING IT POINTS OF VIEW OR OPINIONS STATED DO NOT NECESSARILY REFIRE SENT OFF rCPAt NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION POSITION OR POLICY PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE THIS COPY RIGHTED MATERIAL HAS BEEN GRANTED BY 1/4C. TO ERIC AND ORGANIZATIONS OPERATING UNDER AGREEMENTS WITH THE NATIONAL IN STITUTE OF EDUCATION FURTHER REPRO- DUCTION OUTSIDE THE ERIC SYSTEM RE QUIRES PERMISSION OFTHE COPYRIGHT OWNER National Organization On'Legal Problems of Eduostion '4" Copyright (i) 1968 bYthe' National Organization On Legal Problems of Education Ail Rights Reserved NOM CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS November 8-10, 1967 Deauville Hotel Miami Beach, Florida TABLE OF CONTENTS The Copyright Law and Education Harry N. Rosenfield, Attorney Washington, D. C. Legal Rights of Students in the School Setting Warren E. Gauerke Wayne State University Legal Rights of Minors in Sooiety Thomas A. Shannon, Schools Attorney San Diego Unified School District Legal Problems Related to EXtra Curricular Activities J David Mohler University of Mississippi The Dootrine of 'In Loco Parentis't Past and Present K. Donald Moran, Administrator College High Laboratory School Kansas State College Law for Educators: One Approach Edward C. Bolmeier Duke University EMinent Domain and School Districts . Wallace E. Good, Assistant Dean Kansas State Teachers College Race Relations and the Sohools in the United States: Law and Policy Gordon Foster and Michael J. Stolee South Korida School Desegregation Counsulting Center, University of Miami Mediation, Fact Finding, Arbitration Reynolds C. Seitz Professor of Law Marquette University Memorandum Outlining The Provisions of The Public Employees' Fair Employment Act John E. Glenn, Attorney Albany, New York The Negotiating Council in California An Innovation in Teacher-School Board Relations Clarence H. Langstaff Assistant County Counsel Los Angeles City Board of Education NATIONAL ORGANIZATION ON LDGAL PROBLEMS OF EDUCATION President E. Edmund Reuther, Jr. Professor of Education Teachers College, Columbia University New York, New York 10027 PresidentElect Martha L. Ware Assistant Director, Research Division National Education Association 1201 Sixteenth Street N. W. Washington, D. O. 20038 PastPresident Henry E. Butler, Jr. Associate Professor College of Education University of Rochester Rock ester, N. Y. 14827 fisooretary-Treasurer M. A. McGhehey 825 Western Avenue Topeka, Kansas 66608 FL 7.1144 Executive Committee Robert 1. Simpson, 14137 Associate Professor of Education Miami University Oxford, Ohio 45058 Thomas A. Shannon, 1987 Legal DiegoDiego Unified School District 4100 Normal Street San Diego, California 92103 Allen Thlemich, 1967 Assistant Executive Secretary Minnesota Education Association 41 Sherburne Avenue St. Paul, Minnesota 55103 James O'Meara, 1967 15411 Marlene Avenue Cleveland, Ohio 44135 Howard R. Jones, Dean, 19e4 College of Education University of Iowa Iowa City, Iowa 52240 Eric Groexinger, 1968 State Depurtment of Education 225 West State Street Trenton, New Jerecy 08608 Roger M. Shaw, 1968 Professor of Education Kent Skit. University Kent, Ohio 44240 Joseph M. Nygaard, 1988 Associate Professor of Education Butler University Indianapolis, Indiana 48208 COPYRIGHT LAW AND EDUCATION By Harry N. Rosenfield Attorney Washington, D.C. The copyright law is a legal "sleeper" in the field of school law. It has a vital impact on the educational process, but is often unknown to those whom it affects, even when it subjeots them to heavy financial liabilities and penalties. It is a Federal law; constitutionally, it pre-empts state law. And, until recently, those who dealt With the copyright law rarely, if evert thought of its impact upon schools. It is highly technical, and is almost invariable involved with conflicts between competing commercial interests. The copyright law affects the educational process in at least three ways: I. TEACHERS - - are affeoted in two ways: (a) as authors of copyright works - - they want maximum proteotion; (b) as users of copyrighted works - - they want the greatest possible freedom of use of copyrighted works without legal or administrative limitations. II. SCHOOL BOARDS - - have many-faceted stakes: (a) as purchasers of instructional materials - - costs are affected by royalties; (b) as curriculum approvers - - their plans may be affected by copyright limitations on all sorts of curriculum material; (c) as employers - - especially in connection with copyright on works prepared by their employees within the scope of their duties. III. STUDENTS are affected es users in the learning process. Let's be specific. Just what are we talking about? Example one The following is an excerpt from the forthcoming NEA JOURNAL for December, as an example of a technique to make homework interesting and meaningful: "High Sobool: The class was assigned to watch a 'discovery' program on TV that dealt kith a subject we were studing. I tape recorded the audio portion-ids the broadcast.The next day we listened to the tape in class and used it to ignite a lively and intensive discussion of the subject. Thus we were able to make full use of a professional presentation costing many thousands of dollars and involving many highly talented people." as1, what are the copyright implications? 5 Example Two Take a map in a Sunday Newspaper Supplement or Magazine, a map perhaps of newly emerging countries of Africa. What does a teacher do with the map in school? Here are eight good possibilities: (1) She displays the original on the bulletin board. (2) She projects the original on an opaque projeotor. There is no permanent, tangible copy. There is no problem under copyright. (3) She makes a transparency for overhead projection. (4) She makes it into a slide for a slide projector. This raises very serious problems under present law. The Register of Copyrights says, "NO, one cannot copy an entire work." (5) She makes 30 copies on an instant fluid duplicator to supply one copy for each student in one class. (6) She makes 100 copies on an off-set duplicator for members of three classes. Under present law, this would be allegedly illegal as copying an entire work. (7) She displays the original on ITV.Here there would be no problem. (8) She tapes for delayed broadcast, closed oircuit, one station. Under present law, its legality would be terribly uncertain. BENagailalt A poem is to be used on an examination for analysis. At one time the attorney for the Authors League said, "Do this, and sue for infringement." After a long period of Congressional hearings and lengthy clamor, this was retracted. Under the new proposed bill, according to the House Report, such use would be acceptable. Other Examples of what teachers do with copyrighted materials: (1) An elementary school teacher makes photocopies of a short story from a supermarket magazine for use in choral reading. (2) A physical education teacher dittoes a digest of rules from an offioial rule book. (3) A science teacher makes class copies of an excerpt from a school library reference book to be used immediately. (4) A music teacher tapes his high school orchestra performance for self- evaluation purposes. (5) An English teacher mimeographs several short poems by poets.represented very superficially in air anthology which is used as a text by the students. (6) A social science teacher tapes a radio-TV debate for class discussion the following morning. Here's what we're talking about. This is creative teaching. \ CAN GOOD AND REASONABLE TEACHING PRACTICE BE ILLEGAL COPYRIGHT PRACTICE? For years many of these and other good teaohing praotices have been in wide- spread use, and scarcely anyone thought of the copyright angles.But now that the issue has been raised, many school boards and supervisors fear that the failure to assure the legality of basically sound and reasonable teaching practices will cur- tail and handicap oreative and imaginative teaching seriously. Such reasonable practices have grown up over the years under existing copyright law, and both education and copyright proprietors have prospered. The problem facing the Con- gress today is the need to legitimitize reasonable educational practices so that teachers won't be forced either to drop them, to the detriment of the pupils, or to continue them "under the table." That this will also be to the advantage of copyright