Re: electronic storage

>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 being-

It seems to me that the "electronic reserves" issue is equivalent to a fax-on-demand service - the faculty or the library acquires the rights to a certain set of texts for a certain amount of time for distribution in facsimile to students.

I would expect that a bundle of rights like

   the right to fax this document to all 100 students    taking this course, who will be obliged to discard    the document at the end of the course is going to be much cheaper to buy than 100 times what the copyright clearance center would ask for a single copy.

Or, you could always teach from pre-prints :)

--Ed     Received on Tue Sep 14 1993 - 23:18:31 GMT