Hi,

I have a home study program, and I use popular books as the textbooks. I buy the books and include them in with the other course materials. The books are require reading for the course...

As far as I know, this is perfectly legal and ethical, because I am not in any way infringing upon the author's copyright (by using any text as my own...).

Do you know of any REAL problems with doing this? I emphasize 'real' because it is tempting for people to respond who don't really have a clue - they merely make assumptions. It appears that this won't be a problem in this forum though.

Thanks for you kind help.

Raeba

QUOTE: Originally posted by Jamesaritchie

First, I'm not a lawyer. But I have been involved with a number of courses that used popular books as textbooks, and no special permission was required. The only possible legal problem with this is if you are actually making copies of the books to pass around, rather than having each student in the course buy their own copy.

Unless you're doing something other than described, this is no different than when school teachers buy, or have students buy, copies of popular books for their students to read and study.



Each student receives a purchased original of the book just as the publisher has released it. There are never any copies made in whole or part.