[ISLMA-Share] Student Created Audiobooks

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Hi everyone, 

I am pretty sure I know the answer to this but a teacher has asked me to put it out on the listserv for suggestions. 

She wants to have students create audiobooks. She was thinking of them taking pictures of the book and then recording their voices over the images in a video program. Her idea was to share these readings with elementary students. I told her that she couldn't do that because of copyright. Her next suggestion was to video the student reading the book on video and dispersing that way. Still copyright, right? 

Any follow up explanation or suggestions to her project to not infringe would be greatly appreciated. 

Thanks! 

Staci Thompson 

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