RE: Recorded music and fair use

I would be interested in hearing others thoughts on this as well.

Here we do not put any copies on hard-copy reserve (behind the circulation desk). They would have to put up the four original CD's with notes on which tracks were pertinent to the course objective. We actually have a music library branch that does just this for their professors. I suppose we may be erring on the side of caution with this, but I'd love to hear some other interpretations.

~Angela

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Angela Mott 
Electronic Reserves & Copyright Permissions Coordinator 
George A. Smathers Libraries at the University of Florida 
Phone: (352) 273-2523
Fax: (352) 392-4787 
Email: angmott[_at_]uflib.ufl.edu 
Office: Marston Science Library L306


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From: CNI-COPYRIGHT -- Copyright & Intellectual Property
[mailto:CNI-COPYRIGHT[_at_]cni.org]On Behalf Of Tammy Ravas
Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2005 5:00 PM
To: CNI-COPYRIGHT -- Copyright & Intellectual Property
Subject: [CNI-(C)] Recorded music and fair use


Hello,

I recently took an online course on copyright and the following scenario 
came up in the discussion.  I've researched this in several places 
already and I'm astounded by the different interpretations and 
practices.  Could anyone else here shed some more light on this?  

A professor teaching a music class creates a burned CD that contains 
copies of entire tracks from different sound recordings. To clarify 
things with an example, let's say that there were 4 tracks copied 
respectively from 4 different CDs on this burned CD.  The copies of 
these tracks are needed to help the students prepare for an exam and the 
professor would like for the library to place the burned CD on reserve.  
Is this regarded as a fair use and would the library be in violation of 
copyright if it placed this item on reserve?

Thanks in advance.

Cheers,

-- 
Tammy Ravas
Interim Coordinator of the Music Library
Assistant Music Librarian
Theatre Subject Specialist
University of Houston
e-mail: ravas[_at_]uh.edu
ph. 713-743-3196
fax. 713-743-9918 


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