Re: E-mail to a Class Distribution List

> Does anyone know the fair use issues surrounding a professor sending via
> e-mail to a distribution list of students in a class an article from a
> database to which a library subscribes ? The database is an aggregation
> of articles from other publications and there seems to be no explicit
> licensing restrictions to this kind of use.

And what would be the difference between this and (1) sending the URL for the article to each student via e-mail; (2) posting the search that retrieves that article from the database for each student via e-mail; and (3) posting a link to that article on a class web page. All of these have the same practical effect - getting the students access to an article they should read for class.

Dan Lee
University of Utah Received on Tue Oct 03 2000 - 21:10:14 GMT