copyright licensing schemes in higher education

From: Ioannis Pavlakis <gp12[_at_]ukc.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 11:31:59 +0100 (GMT Daylight Time)

Dear List-members,

I am currently undertaking academic research on the various higher education copyright licensing schemes operating across Europe, as well as in the US, Canada, and Australia. I have already completed a comprehensive research on the UK's licensing scheme, but the operation of other licensing schemes has become of particular interest to me, given that the representative body of UK Universities (Committee of Vice-Chancellors & Principals of the Universities of the United Kingdom -- CVCP) has brought an action before the UK's Copyright Tribunal against the UK Copyright Licensing Agency (CLA) challenging the terms of its present copying licence with the CLA (for more details see:

  http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/copyrights/2000-07/0009.html

I would be more than grateful if you could give me any information you may have in relation to the Higher Education copying licensing schemes in your own country and the particular problems faced by users or direct me to any person or sources which you think might be helpful. Your assistance is of invaluable importance and will be very much appreciated.

Here follows a list of questions which may give you an idea of what I am looking for:

1. Does a Higher Education copying licence exist in your own country? Which is the tariff under the licence for each member of staff and student in full-time education?
2. Does the licensing scheme cover only photocopying or reprographic copying, or does it also include digital copying and digitisation?
3. What are the copying limits under the licence?
4. Does the same tariff apply to the non-university and schools sectors?
5. Does your national legislation provide for non-infringing copying for private/personal use? If yes, does the licensing scheme take into account this 'private use' entitlement?
6. Is there a separate licence/clearance-service for non-commercial / non-profit course/study-packs distributed to students by universities? If yes, is there a fixed per page tariff?
7. Is there a separate charge or separate licence required if a licensee wishes to copy (or incidentally copies) a diagram or a picture (artistic work) within a book?
8. What percentage of the fees collected by your licensing scheme is distributed to authors and what to publishers?

Thank you very much for your time.

Regards,

Ioannis Pavlakis

PS 1: If you wish to contact me off-list you can e-mail me at: <gp12[_at_]ukc.ac.uk>

PS 2: In case you have any queries about the English scheme which you think I might be able to answer please feel free to contact me.

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Ioannis Pavlakis

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e-mail: gp12[_at_]ukc.ac.uk Received on Fri Jul 28 2000 - 10:39:11 GMT