There are limits to how much a book can be photocopied by a teacher for use by their students, copyright wise. But I am told that I can buy a course pack of photocopies and then go and copy the rest of the book myself and not conflict...Not sure how, but that's what My teachers tell me.

IN fact, legally, you can't. MSU got into ALL kinds of trouble about it. Even a lot of the course packs aren't legal. Kinko's refused to do them without written copyright permission from each publisher after the initial dustup. Not sure if they were actually fined, or not.

It's just that the publishers don't have time to police every book at every school.