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Legal Music Distribution for Education?

discstickers asks: "One of my classes next semester, 'Roots of Rock & Roll', has been canceled, because the professor isn't allowed to post the songs needed for the class, on a limited-access server ([which would] only be available to people registered for the class). So Slashdot, is there a legal way to get around this? The MP3s in question are old albums and individual songs. The cost shouldn't be too high, there are 100 people in the class with Macs and PCs, and we'd have to be able to burn the music to mix CDs for the final project."

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  1. There is a document by Apreche · · Score: 2, Informative

    There is a law which explicitly dictates the terms under which you may use copyrighted material for educational use. Find it and do what it says, and it is legal.

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