Reference no: EM132101147

Ellen, who runs a successful nail salon, ran across a very interesting pamphlet on customer relations. The pamphlet was fifty pages long and costed $70.00. Ellen thought the price was outrageous. Accordingly, she bought one copy and photocopied the pages that she thought were pertinent and gave them to her employees. She copied forty of the pages out of the pamphlet for each of twenty employees. A disgruntled employee informed the publisher of the pamphlet what Ellen had done, and she was charged with copyright infringement. Ellen defended on the basis of the fair use doctrine.

Do you think Ellen will win?

a. No, because you cannot copy a copyrighted work.

b. Yes, because she only used it in her business and didn't sell it to customers.

c. Yes, because the cost was outrageous.

d. No, because Ellen copied a substantial amount of the copyrighted work.