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Originally Posted by GatorB
Ok when I was in high school and we're talking 25 years ago, we were studing something and there was some show on about it and our teacher recomended watching it. I suggest she tape in and bring it in school and show that. She was told she legally could not do that. She had to buy the tape from the producers of the show. They supposedly had a special version for educational purposes. And of course the version that was made for schools was like $100 even though it was exactly the same as the one on TV.
So this kind of stuff has been going on for long time.
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It has been... this is also a little different, educational or not, it's still the state which makes the video being used by a corporate entity. Also probably good chance the producers wouldn't make an income from the viewers. So charging is understandable, even if it's an over charge for a school.