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From: Freya Anderson <freya_anderson[_at_]eed.state.ak.us>
Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2002 10:16:34 -0900

Susan~

There is no specific number of pages that cam be copied. CONTU guidelines, available online at http://www.cni.org/docs/info.policies/CONTU.html , refer to numbers of articles. Copyright law refers to "the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole" in one of the four factors for determining fair use (Title 17, Sect. 107, see online at http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/ or other locations).

Some good copyright resources for ILL are:

The Copyright Clearance Center's list of copyright-related web sites:http://www.copyright.com/CopyrightResources/LinksCopyrightWebSites.asp

The University of Texas "Crash Course in Copyright" http://www.utsystem.edu/OGC/IntellectualProperty/cprtindx.htm

MIT's "Copyright: Policies and procedures" http://libraries.mit.edu/about/copyright-task-force.html

Also, you may wish to look through Susan Boucher's "Interlibrary Loan Practices Handbook." She covers copyright for ILL in a relatively simple manner.

Unrelated to the focus of your question, but a wonderful site none-the-less, is Laura Gasaway's "When works pass into the public domain," available in many locations online including http://www.unc.edu/~unclng/public-d.htm

I hope this helps!
Freya

>Question:
>
>When filling an article request for an ILL patron, is there a limit to the
>amount of pages to be copied under "fair use"? I was under the impression
>it was 10 (ten) pages max.
>
>Susan B. Robinson
>Document Delivery Librarian
>Ryan Library
>Iona College
>715 North Ave.
>New Rochelle, NY 10801
>914.633.2352
>srobinson[_at_]iona.edu

Freya Anderson

ILL Librarian 	    		 ~around the clock reference service~		
Alaska State Library			 http://library.state.ak.us	

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