Reflection on "Hong Kong's Amended Copyright Law - a Guide for Teachers and Students"

http://www.ipd.gov.hk/eng/intellectual_property/copyright/edu_guide.pdf

"Fair dealing"- facilitating modern teaching methods
                       - applies not only to works in printed form but also to works available on the Internet
                       -to allow teachers and students to use or deal with reasonable portions of copyright
                      works in a fair manner for teaching and learning in a specified course of study

The two examples of "unfair" dealing have left great impression to me.
1: a student copying the whole or a large portion of a textbook because he believes the textbook is too expensive (this is not fair dealing because the amount is too great and the market for the book was adversely affected).

Frankly speaking, I didn't think textbooks are so expensive until I became a student in cityu. My textbooks used in the last semester generally cost at least 200 HKD for each, so think of the total textbook costs throughout four years to an undergraduate. What a large amount ! It's no wonder that many students want to copy their textbooks. However, I admit that this "fair dealing" regulation in HK protecting the interests of book markets to some extent indeed makes sense and necessary. In the mainland China, I'm not sure if such rule exists. Actully, there has been an increasing tendency of copying textbooks in many universities since the year of 2008.

2: a teacher playing a DVD of a currently shown movie in class for students' entertainment after exam were over (this is not fair because it is a currently shown movie and it was not used for an educational purpose)

I don't understand why a currently shown movie cannot be used for an educational purpose. I think as long as the movie and its DVD are released, teachers could use it in their classes.