Re: a "can of worms" to open...

On Fri, Feb 25, 2000, Amy Jo Hatfield <ajhatfie[_at_]iupui.edu> wrote:
>
> I am a graduate student in the School of Library and Information
> Science at IUPUI. I am interested in conducting a study that will
> explore how copyright effects electronic reserve services in a large
> multi-disciplinary university setting serving undergraduate, graduate,
> and doctorial students (most of whom are commuter students). I want
> to look at the "big picture" of copyright and electronic reserves,
> but more specifically, the levels of restrictive publisher policies
> with regards to electronic reserves and how those policies (copyright)
> restrict how much can be digitized and accessed under "fair use" vs.
> "required copyright permission." I am having difficulty finding any
> previous research that address these issues. I, therefore, am posting
> to this listserv in hopes of some feedback, opinions, experiences, and
> maybe even some citations of previous work.
>
> If you feel compelled to offer such assistance, please respond.
>
> With electronic reserves becoming a popular service in many university
> settings, we need to assess how libraries and publishers, with regards
> to copyright policies and law, can compromise so that the libraries
> can fully serve their users and stay within a legal/resonable framework.
> The first step is to examine how copyright effects the service.
> Depending on the findings, the next step will be to appeal to the
> publishers.

IUPUI has a great web site on copyright as a place to start -- also, they give out the emails of the authors of the articles on the site, so perhaps you can ask them for help.

beyond that, a number of universities have web sites on point -- Stanford and Texas come to mind immediately, but there are many others as well.

Roland J. Cole, Executive Director
Software Patent Institute
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cole@spi.org; http://www.spi.org/ Received on Tue Feb 29 2000 - 05:29:38 GMT