please help: case law re: mult copies classroom use, non-profit

Hello, all.  

I work at an independent non-profit higher ed institution, and am trying to determine on behalf of my entire faculty whether our campus "general services" office, which is the campus copying center and is staffed entirely by university employees (no outsourcing or profit issues at all), can make photocopies of book chapters and journal articles for our faculty to pass out in face-to-face classes, under the "multiple copies for classroom use" clause. (Currently they refuse to make any copies of anything at all that a third party holds the copyright to, in any amount and for any purpose.)  

I'm trying to find all case law and indeed all incidents anyone knows about of cases, even suits that were settled out of court and produced no case law, regarding, in the non-profit higher education context copying entire scholarly journal articles and book chapters by the campus' own full-time employees for face-to-face in-classroom use. I'm not concerned about multimedia, or electronic anything, but simple paper copies of entire journal articles, or entire book chapters (but not an entire book) that would be passed out to students in a direct face-to-face class.  

I'm aware of the MDS case, but am a bit confused as to how much of the decision rode on an outside for-profit entity doing the copying. I'm also aware of the NACS/AAP "Guidelines" but I've also been told that campus bookstores have a different, almost for-profit, legal status even at a non-profit institution so that might not apply to my situation.  

I haven't been able to find a single copyright case involving print, non-fiction sources at a non-profit higher ed site where there were absolutely no connections in the case to any for-profit business.  

Please don't ask why a librarian is doing this instead of a university attorney.  

Thanks for any assistance you can give!  

Melissa Belvadi
Systems and Services Librarian
Maryville University Library
650 Maryville University Drive, St. Louis, MO 63141 mbelvadi[_at_]maryville.edu
314-529-9531
Fax: 314-529-9941   Received on Mon Oct 16 2006 - 21:35:30 GMT