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  1. #1
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    Default Use of Information

    The school where I teach uses a network software program called PowerSchool. We pull up all of our class rosters and take attendance electronically. I am teaching a Statistics course and would like to generate a master list of all students in our school by homeroom and distribute it to my students for surveying purposes. Would accessing all lists of teachers' homeroom students from this program and retyping them into a spreadsheet constitute copyright infringement? It seems these rosters could be considered "facts," although there may be some originality on the part of the software program if it divided up the students by alphabetizing or by random arrangement.

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    the lists are probably not protected by copyright law but they are protected by privacy laws. You would need the permission from the school to even review the lists let alone utilize them in some manner.

    ask the school if you can do what you propose. Anything less than that could jeopardize your job.

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