Technology in Learning

Can I make copies of this CD for each of my students to take home to practice for our class play?

I referred to the CANI fair use principles for educators and the FCPS Guidelines for Print Music and Sound Recordings to help me answer this question. In order to answer the question, other questions must be asked and answered.  What is on the CD and is the class play for academic instruction or for performance?  

Copyright and fair use does not allow a teacher to copy the entire sound recording to distribute to the students without permission.  Using the CANI principles to answer the question, this would have a financial impact on the market value.  However, what if the teacher is just copying excerpts of the work to cd and giving them to students for practice?  This may be allowed.  If the play is for academic instruction and not for performance, then copies may be distributed to the students provided what is copied to the cd does not contain a part of the whole work which could be independently performed.  An example of this would be a scene or monologue of the play.