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    This case is a bit tricky but I believe that it is a copyright issue because the teacher making these presentations is not seeking permission to use these images and such for these other teachers and presentations.  Fair use is only good if the information being used is transformed somehow, but if the teacher just took the information/images and kept them the exact same to teach the same point that the images were intended for then that is breaking the copyright (Hobbs, 9).  This means that because she is presenting copyrighted information and images, the teachers who use these presentations are also copyrighting something that they do not have permission to do.  Now this could possibly be taken down to an educational use of fair use which means that it is okay, but this would only cover the original teacher who is using the presentations for an educational method. As soon as she started making and sharing because other teachers were lazy and did not want to create them on their own she broke this ability. One thing that Hobbs brings up is the fact that the administrators of schools do not know enough about copyright which in the long run effects the teachers who know nothing about them either and this is how these situations happen (Hobbs, 69).  With sharing of documents and such becoming more and more common these issues are apt to happen more (Hobbs, 93).
    If we look at the purpose of these presentations, we can see they were for an educational use.  These images and information used were found from internet research and were not changed to create a new meaning before using them. Lastly, these presentations were not making income until someone tried to create something to sell using the presentations they were given and this specifically breaks the fair use copyright because it is taking money away from the people who rightfully created the images/information (105).