Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Hong Kong's Amended Copyright Law

Teachers used to make photocopies of supplementary exercises for students' learning without concerning the issue of copyright. Teachers used to play the whole movie to students during post-exam periods. Since the Copyright Ordinance came out, my school had a great concern of making photocopies for educational use. My principal concerned whether teachers could photocopy newspaper articles to students especially for General Studies lesson.

After reading the 'Fair dealing' part in this article, I have a better understanding of copyright issue in school setting such as when and to what extend I can photocopy exercise, play DVD and adopt other's work in my own teaching.

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