Share Textbook

[Mohammed Huberty]

Ifa faculty member has chosen a book as their course textbook and the students enrolled in that course are required to purchase the textbook, the faculty has the permission of the publisher to use the accompanying instructional and supplementary materials for that textbook in order to instruct the course.

Please see the list below for specific permissions and instructions of various textbook publishers regarding sharing or distribution. If the publisher or your use of the material is not listed here as being permitted by the publisher, please contact the copyright team.

If an instructor has adopted the textbooks for their course and the students are expected to purchase the text, the instructor may use their discretion when using the accompanying materials for instructional purposes.

The use of instructor's manuals for course instruction purposes is permitted. This includes projecting or posting content in electronic format for course presentation and printing for student instruction.

The use of the instructor's manuals for course instruction purposes is permitted. This includes projecting or posting content in electronic format for course presentation and printing for student instruction.

As long as the textbook that the resources are accompanying is adopted in a course, the faculty has the right to modify and distribute the instructor materials for the purpose of teaching their course.

I have scanned a few chapters of a textbook (about 10%) and I want to make the electronic files available to my classmates. The reason why I scanned the chapters initially was so that I could print them out and give it to a friend, and that is what I did.

The class of 93 people has an intranet with a chat room. I could ask them to email me of they are interested in getting the files. The folder size is large, so I would need to provide a link for them to download the files off, say, Google Drive, and Google gives the option of restricting the download to a specific person if they have a Gmail account. The other option is to post a download link on the chat room that could be used by anybody. Would that be legal and/or ethical? If I do share the files individually, would it be fine to send a link to an individual email that could be used by anybody? The students have access to the book in any case, at the library.

I understand that when my classmates share an entire textbook on the chat room in this way, it is illegal and unethical. But there is a finer line being drawn here because what I want to do is not dissimilar to sharing the files with one or two people.

In the U.S. the key to this question is whether or not your use is considered fair use. Here is a link that explains more. In determining whether a use is considered fair use in U.S. copyright law, there are four factors:

There are no hard-and-fast rules; you have to use your judgement and weigh all four factors to make a determination. This link has several examples of common copyright-related scenarios in universities.

The scenario in which you copy a small part of a factual published work for distribution to a very limited group of people for personal educational use, who can already access a legal copy owned by the university, and you take steps to prevent more widespread distribution, seems completely fine under U.S. copyright law, although IANAL.

(Again, all four factors are relevant. If you were copying a single page to share with the entire class, or if you were copying 10% to share with one study partner, it would be more defensible - but sharing 10% of a book with the entire class is less defensible.)

I am going to teach a course in the Winter term and I have access to the solution manual provided by the publisher. Is it legal to share some questions (not the whole questions) with their answers with students?

The legality is questionable, but note that copyright violations are usually a matter of civil law, not criminal. But what you suggest in a comment (electronic PDF) could be considered a form of re-publishing.

Some answer manuals (mine, for instance) ask that the answers not be given to students in any form. They are provided just as a guide to the teacher to ease course preparation. You should probably follow that advice even if it is somewhat stricter than the law requires (see below).

While you can quote short segments of a copyrighted work for certain purposes, the law is often designed to forbid copying that lessens the value of the original. Maintaining creator value is actually the purpose of copyright. And, letting solutions provided by the authors into the public arena will certainly lessen the value of the book in the future. (The book itself, not just the answer booklet).

The other issue with copyright is that you can't normally copy/republish a "complete work". But that doesn't necessarily mean a complete book. A diagram within a book might be construed as complete in itself and so can't be copied. I don't know whether a "complete" question with its answer would be construed that way, but an aggressive lawyer might make such a claim.

But there is a further reason for not doing what you suggest. Not only is it possible that your electronic version will spread further, but pedagogically your students are better off developing solutions themselves than reading the solutions of others. There is much less learning value in reading solutions than in producing them. And even if the students memorize the solutions of others, there is much less learning value and much less chance that they will develop any insight into their field.

You can authorize multiple devices on your Audible account, so you could share your login directly. However, your Audible login is also your Amazon login, so that person theoretically would have access to view your purchase history, browse your lists, and even make purchases on your Amazon account. So it had better be someone you trust.

I use my local library for almost all of my audiobooks, but sometimes they do not the book I am looking for. There should be a way to rent an audiobook, does anyone know if there is a site that lets you borrow a book for a fee.

To safeguard the well-being of the public and volunteers, pre-booking of a collection time-slot will be made mandatory. Forms for the pre-booking of collection time slots will be made available for beneficiaries under the priority scheme and the public where there are 10 hourly collection time slots are available each day, and each booking limits a total of two pax into the Arena for collection of textbooks. Booking of collection time-slot for the public will commence on 26 November 2022.

The Los Rios Libraries offer digital copies of certain textbooks and other library materials. If you need to save or share the link to a digital book there are two ways to do so. The OneSearch Record link is recommended for sharing.

The share link will allow you to copy a URL that leads directly to the digital book. Keep in mind that anyone you share with will need to log in to access an available copy. (Note: It is NOT recommended to use this share link for viewing on mobile devices.)

For some book influencers, we get the luxury of deciding which books we will share. Others feel like they must share every single book a publisher sends to them. They have to do a review of every single title granted. Their Netgalley percentage needs to be at 80%.

I think one of the hardest things to do as a book influencer is to make sure that the stories you are promoting do not bring harm to entire communities. There are times when I have picked up a book and had to stop reading it because one too many insensitive remarks are made about an entire race of people. There was even an instance when I was a beta reader and I decided that because there were too many references stolen from the Native American culture, I could not continue. It was borderline racist, because of the way the terms were used.

In these instances, it is best to have some form of contact with either the author or the publisher. Express your concerns (especially if you are reading an advance copy pre-publication). This will allow the author/editor to go back and fix these troublesome items.

Klune had read something about this and was inspired to write this feel good book. He took the story that belonged to the Indigenous community and, as a white man, profited off of it. It was a colonizer move.

Now, if Klune had been an ally to the Indigenous community, he would have pushed the narrative that he was bringing to light the injustices that happened to the Indigenous community. He would have promoted resources to help learn more about what happened. He would have donated to organizations that helped their community.

It is disappointing to learn how Klune profited off of the Indigenous community. It is because of this, I will not promote any of his titles, because his ethics do not align with mine. This does not mean I will blast his book. I will simply ignore it. The book and the controversy do not deserve access to my space.

Before sharing books like these where the author or the book are controversial, you should consider if you are possibly hurting an entire marginalized community. Are you contributing to the problem? If sharing the book means that you would be labeled as tone deaf, racist, or insensitive to your followers, you should reconsider whether to share the book with them. This does not mean you should never read the book. If you want to read the book, go right ahead. But keep in mind, should you decide to share it, people will assume that your ethics align with the author/book that are problematic. If your ethics do not align with theirs, you should consider not sharing it. You are not obligated to share every single title you read.

Since I read a lot of stories from marginalized communities, I check to make sure the person writing about them are either from those communities, have a strong connection to that community, or they are an ally helping that community.

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