Virtual Teaching And Copyright: How Fair Is Fair Use?

INTRODUCTION

Today information and communication technologies (ICT) are developing at a pace as never before seen, they reflect opportunities for creative interventions to help reduce the education gap. ICT may act as a bridge to transcend geographical limitations in education, enabling wider dissemination of learning materials as well as allowing for collaborative learning and production of learning materials. Education policies in today's time have begun to reveal this thereby acknowledging the significance of internet in the future of education.

In wake of pandemic and to contain spread of COVID – 19, many educational institutions; particularly colleges and universities had to switch from classroom teaching to virtual teaching or distance education. However, one of the key challenges to the unprecedented and unexpected shift to online education is the issue of Copyright.