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		christiangenco on March 23, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Textbooks Prices: Out of Control I'd love to see a repository of problems from the back of textbooks. I think there's some law in education that says that you can copy <10% of a book and legally distribute it.

ivan_ah on March 23, 2014 [–]

That's an AWESOME idea.

Does anyone have experience with the 10% copyright rule?

Even more interestingly---students could peer review their solutions to the problems.

christiangenco on March 24, 2014 | [–]

Here's a link on the 10% rule I found: http://www.complexip.com/ten-percent-is-fair-use-for-educati...

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