Question

Professor Wise is teaching a summer seminar in business torts at State University. Several times during the course, he makes copies of relevant sections from business law texts and distributes themto his students. Wise does not realize that the daughter of one of the textbook authors is a member of his seminar. She tells her father about Wise’s copying activities, which have taken place without her father’s or his publisher’s permission. Her father sues Wise for copyright infringement. Wise claims protection under the fair use doctrine. Who will prevail? Explain.

Answer 1

Answer:

The text author has all the righ to sue under Copy right Law: which allows him to sue professor Wise for braking the copy rights.

He can also claim authors rights to be the only one that distributes, copy and makes derivate work.

Explanation:

If Proffesor Wise claims for fair use doctrine is not going to work, because this doesn't take away or erase him breaking the law under the explained laws, copy right and author rights.

Although fair use doctine allows the distrbution of limited copyrighted material for informative or academic use, this does not erase the infractions Wise is been acused of.