Legal Music Distribution for Education?

Posted by Cliff on Wednesday December 31, 2003 @09:12AM from the if-it-isn't-legal-it-should-be dept.

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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Compulsory licensing by senahj · 2003-12-31 11:39 · Score: 3, Interesting

The campus radio station should broadcast the
songs at a specific time -- the copyright holders
would get a small compensation.

Then the professor should ask the students to each
tape that broadcast for personal use, which they are
legally allowed to do.

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Wait a minute. Didn't I say that on the other side of the record? I'd better check ...