electronic storage

> Our Academic Permissions Service (APS), set up after the Kinko's decision
> in 1991, offers copyright clearance for photocopying and _some_ limited
> scanning and storage. It does not cover _display_ over a network.
>
> I would like to be able to advance the APS to cover this kind of
> _copying_. Perhaps some sort of consortium between CCC, interested
> universities/libraries and publishers would help this along. What do
> those of you out there think?
>
> Allen W. Dean
> Copyright Clearance Center
> INTERNET: 76557.1122[_at_]compuserve.com
> On Fri, 3 Sep 1993, Ron Naylor wrote:
> >

After much information gathering on electronic reserves problems and prospects, I think it is naive to assume that a consortium of CCC, publishers and libraries could effectively deal with the issues involved. Reserves is such an ideosyncratic function that the mechanics of gaining appropriate permissions for electronic use (including all considerations of digitizing, storing, networking, and multiple simultaneous display, all of which are highly desirable) in the appropriate time frame would be quite impossible. The battle lines remain drawn as they have always been, with publishers and intermediary profiteers on the one side and libraries, information, technology and users on the other side. The copyright law that is supposed to regulate the interaction of these interests is not adaptable to electronic technologies as it is currently written. Because of this fact, electronic reserves remains an elusive vision for the time beingbut  I believe there is mounting frustration over the discrepancy with the ease and low expense of the technology versus the costs and intractable difficulties of obtaining permissions for many kinds of materials. Publishers, scholars, libraries,information users and government should be involved in a dialogue about how this situation can be remedied, and the sooner the better...

		--Jeff Rosedale
	Columbia University Libraries

nb opinions are my own and do not necessarily reflect the views of Columbia University or Columbia University Libraries Received on Mon Sep 13 1993 - 20:49:25 GMT