This bestselling work provides practitioners with a complete guide to implementing response to intervention (RTI) in schools. The authors are leading experts who explain the main components of RTI--high-quality instruction, frequent assessment, and data-based decision making--and show how to use it to foster positive academic and behavioral…

Provisions of the new copyright law (Public Law 94-553) and its implications for classroom teachers are outlined, with guidelines for educational "fair use" in copying books and periodicals. (MF)

Presents the case for library photocopying. (PF)

Summarizes the testimony of a group of prominent authors before a Congressional committee dealing with copyright revision. (PF)

This September 29, 1976, report of the joint Senate-House of Representatives Conference Committee contains the amended text of a proposed new copyright law. An explanation of the specific points of conflict in the House and Senate versions of the bill and the resolutions suggested by the Conference Committee are appended. As reported out of the…

Attempts to familiarize teachers and others with the major provisions of the new copyright law signed by President Ford on October 19, 1976. (Author/RK)

Under previous copyright legislation and jurisprudence, medical, and to a lesser extent, educational professionals, were afforded broad discretion under the judicially created fair use doctrine. The Copyright Act of 1976 creates a statutory definition of fair use and prescribes a test to be used in determining when a use is "fair" and…

The Copyright Act of 1976 provides statutory definitions of fair use and in general is restrictive of the use of film and video in an educational setting, reflecting a general "copyright owner's" point of view. Film distributors are enforcing and planning to continue to enforce their rights under the law. There is a general concern that…

Explains how the new federal copyright law seriously jeopardizes the important author/creator rights embodied in the doctrine of moral rights, shortens the duration of protection for unpublished works, and poses the threat of greatly expanding "legal infringement" under the fair use rule. (GW)

Basic guidelines for compliance to new federal legislation on copyrights are given. (MJB)

This article, written before report to Congress by Register of Copyrights was issued, examines whether balancing of rights of creators and needs of users has been accomplished by Copyright Revision Act of 1976, and reviews key issues in dispute between librarians and publishers over use of copyrighted materials in libraries. (EJS)

Senate Bill 22, the proposed new copyright law, specifies in chapter one the subject matter and scope of copyright. It also defines the terms used in the bill and formulates limitations on the exclusive rights of copyright holders. These limitations include the "fair use" of copyrighted work by reproduction for noncommercial educational use,…

Reviews selected proposals for revision of Canadian Copyright Act which relate to copyright exemptions, fair use, reprography, copyright societies, materials for the disabled, computerized information systems, collective works, public renting rights, paternity right, and right to authorize. Modifications in the interest of libraries are suggested.…