QUOTE (fkalich @ May 11 2007, 03:10 PM)
Not a lawyer, but I HIGHLY doubt that it is not a violation of copyright law anywhere. Free site means nothing, that would not be the issue in such a case. The damages to the parties owning the intellectual property would be the issue, I don't think being a free site would have any materiality whatever. Very much violation of copyright law on internet, just because it is not all being pursued in court does not mean it is not illegal. Very difficult to pursue a lot of these cases, especially when they are based in countries that to do take an active role in trying to control the abuses, where corruption is endemic.
Actually, there is a significant difference between education and profit. Education is one of the legitimate reasons for using copyrighted material, the other most common are parody and criticism. You're high school didn't have to license copies of books that you read because they are being used for educational material. Now, once you start <i>charging</i> for that class or that education there becomes a need to acquire the right to use materials.
My web media company has a lot of sites and I deal quite often with copyright. It is no more illegal to teach someone how to play copyrighted material as it is to actually play copyrighted material. It all changes when money is involved. Education is a copyright umbrella.
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