How a Teacher Made $1 Million Selling Lesson Plans
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How a Teacher Made $1 Million Selling Lesson Plans
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#2I'm waiting for TPT to get sued for copyright infringement. From what I've seen of plans purchased by my wife and/or her school they tend to be distributed with copy protected content that have specific licenses preventing commercial redistribution. The plans will have "source" links included at the end but the distribution of the material is still happening and only after the plan has been paid for. Since TPT gets a percentage of the sale or a yearly fee I would expect the argument to be that TPT directly profits from the copyright infringement.
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#3http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3989803
"Kindergarten Teacher Earns $700,000 by Selling Lesson Plans Online"
May 2012
Re: How a Teacher Made $1 Million Selling Lesson Plans
#4I'm waiting for TPT to get sued for copyright infringement. From what I've seen of plans purchased by my wife and/or her school they tend to be distributed with copy protected content that have specific licenses preventing commercial redistribution. The plans will have "source" links included at the end but the distribution of the material is still happening and only after the plan has been paid for. Since TPT gets a…
Between the teaching exception for copyright and the DMCA safe-harbor, I am not sure the lawsuit is a slam dunk. At the end of the day, major educational publishers might be forced to submit DCMA requests or sue teachers/schools (which would never happen). It would be far smarter for the big educational publishers to buy this thing back for mega-bucks rather than launch a lawsuit they could lose.
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#5I'm waiting for TPT to get sued for copyright infringement. From what I've seen of plans purchased by my wife and/or her school they tend to be distributed with copy protected content that have specific licenses preventing commercial redistribution. The plans will have "source" links included at the end but the distribution of the material is still happening and only after the plan has been paid for. Since TPT gets a…
Between the teaching exception for copyright and the DMCA safe-harbor, I am not sure the lawsuit is a slam dunk. At the end of the day, major educational publishers might be forced to submit DCMA requests or sue teachers/schools (which would never happen). It would be far smarter for the big educational publishers to buy this thing back for mega-bucks rather than launch a lawsuit they could lose.
Why would the publishers buy a third party service when they already have a captive audience of customers (teachers)?
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#6I'm waiting for TPT to get sued for copyright infringement. From what I've seen of plans purchased by my wife and/or her school they tend to be distributed with copy protected content that have specific licenses preventing commercial redistribution. The plans will have "source" links included at the end but the distribution of the material is still happening and only after the plan has been paid for. Since TPT gets a…
Between the teaching exception for copyright and the DMCA safe-harbor, I am not sure the lawsuit is a slam dunk. At the end of the day, major educational publishers might be forced to submit DCMA requests or sue teachers/schools (which would never happen). It would be far smarter for the big educational publishers to buy this thing back for mega-bucks rather than launch a lawsuit they could lose.
Additionally, suing a site designed to help teachers and run by a former teacher might generate some rather bad publicity.
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#7I'm waiting for TPT to get sued for copyright infringement. From what I've seen of plans purchased by my wife and/or her school they tend to be distributed with copy protected content that have specific licenses preventing commercial redistribution. The plans will have "source" links included at the end but the distribution of the material is still happening and only after the plan has been paid for. Since TPT gets a…
Between the teaching exception for copyright and the DMCA safe-harbor, I am not sure the lawsuit is a slam dunk. At the end of the day, major educational publishers might be forced to submit DCMA requests or sue teachers/schools (which would never happen). It would be far smarter for the big educational publishers to buy this thing back for mega-bucks rather than launch a lawsuit they could lose.
The teaching exception does not include copying, only performance and display, copying and distribution is what's happening here. The plans I've looked at contained fonts/images that have specific licenses forbidding commercial redistribution/resale and they are distributed as part of purchased plans. The author of the plan includes links to where the fonts/images can be purchased but still distributed them in a commercial form. The DMCA safe harbor would be the only thing I think that would protect them, but that hasn't stopped suits in the past.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Between the teaching exception for copyright and the DMCA safe-harbor, I am not sure the lawsuit is a slam dunk. At the end of the day, major educational publishers might be forced to submit DCMA requests or sue teachers/schools (which would never happen). It would be far smarter for the big educational publishers to buy this thing back for mega-bucks rather than launch a lawsuit they could lose.
Additionally, suing a site designed to help teachers and run by a former teacher might generate some rather bad publicity.
That's never stopped other copyright holders. How many lawsuits have made the press because they were against elderly, dead people, etc? Quite a few.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Between the teaching exception for copyright and the DMCA safe-harbor, I am not sure the lawsuit is a slam dunk. At the end of the day, major educational publishers might be forced to submit DCMA requests or sue teachers/schools (which would never happen). It would be far smarter for the big educational publishers to buy this thing back for mega-bucks rather than launch a lawsuit they could lose.
The teaching exception does not include copying, only performance and display, copying and distribution is what's happening here. The plans I've looked at contained fonts/images that have specific licenses forbidding commercial redistribution/resale and they are distributed as part of purchased plans. The author of the plan includes links to where the fonts/images can be purchased but still distributed them in a comm…
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Between the teaching exception for copyright and the DMCA safe-harbor, I am not sure the lawsuit is a slam dunk. At the end of the day, major educational publishers might be forced to submit DCMA requests or sue teachers/schools (which would never happen). It would be far smarter for the big educational publishers to buy this thing back for mega-bucks rather than launch a lawsuit they could lose.
Why would the publishers buy a third party service when they already have a captive audience of customers (teachers)?
Publishers are in the business of helping teachers convey information to students by selling schools and teachers materials such as lesson plans, textbooks, and workbooks. TPT does the same thing but cuts out the publisher.
I am not sure what you mean about captive audience. Are you saying they should just build their own marketplace?