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58 teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement.” The Act itself sheds no more light on what is fair use in an educational setting. We do have some guidelines, however, courtesy of a 1976 agreement by the Ad Hoc Committee of Educational Institutions and Organizations on Copyright Law Revision, the Authors League of America, and the Association of American Publishers. The Agreement on Guidelines for Classroom Copying in Not-for-Profit Educational Institutions was part of the 1976 Act’s legislative history. Here are its highlights:

We believe the Guidelines are overly restrictive. For example, a teacher may not copy for her students an entire article if it is longer than 2,500 words. Although the typical Newsweek or Time article will fit comfortably within the 2,500-word limit, that is not true for articles in scholarly journals.