This gets into licensing, rather than copyright. If there were no
license with the database, then shouldn't this be acceptable as multiple
copies for classroom use, since likely no one is being paid for making
the copies? Granted, very few databases don't have licenses.
Keep in mind, however, that if the database is licensed by the school at
which the professor is teaching, likely it is licensed for student use as
well, so this would probably be allowed. In any case, it would
probably be prudent to check with whoever negotiated or signed for the
licensing agreement, usually someone in the library.
Freya
At 10:29 AM 9/12/02 -0700, you wrote:
It all depends on where the
article came from, and what uses of the article are permitted under the
license accompanying the database from which the article was extracted. I
suspect that most database licenses would prohibit this sort of
re-distribution.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jan Brumm/LI/AD/WSC [mailto:JaBrumm1@wsc.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 12:08 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: copyright questions to listservs
I am new to this list and this question may have been asked before so
please excuse me.
1. If a faculty member downloaded a full text of an article from a
database and then e-mails it to all of his class, is that permissible?
2. Can they repeat the email for additional semesters without obtaining
copyright permission?
Thanks in advance.
Jan Brumm
Wayne State College
Wayne, NE
jabrumm1@wsc.edu
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