Re: electronic storage

>A teaching colleague wants to scan 6 articles from 6 different journals
>and 1 chapter of a book into a computer file which will be accessible on the
>University network. It will be a Read Only file - no downloading or
>printing - and will be password protected to be able to be accessed by only
>the 120 students in the course. At the end of the course the file will be
>purged.
>
>Please comment on the copyright implications. Thank you.
>
>Ron naylor
>Un of Miami

There's no such thing as a read-only file. Any half-decent terminal software can log a terminal session and therefore capture a file as it goes by.

As others with more expertise in copyright respond, it'd be useful to hear whether the online aspect of this makes any difference at all; ie how is this any different than preparing a course pack for 120 students? In that case Kinko's et al could tell you very clearly how to go through the Copyright Clearance Center these days.

/rich Received on Fri Sep 03 1993 - 21:32:02 GMT