Re: Photocopied materials with videotape

From: Cal <PRYLUCK[_at_]VM.TEMPLE.EDU>
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 93 12:56:38 EDT

On Sun, 19 Sep 93 10:33:45 -0400 James Cubit said:
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> whether or not it would be advisable to use photocopies of
>materials that were included with a videotape our library had
>purchased. We questioned whether or not the photocopies were made
>with permission and were not going to use them unless we could
>determine that they were legally made.
>

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> our library owns and makes available most
>of the popular periodicals from which the photocopies were taken.
>What does matter is whether or not I'm making my institution liable
>for copyright infringement if I allow the photocopies to be added to
>our collection.

What would be the legal situation if NEW copies were made from the periodicals legally possessed by the library, using the possibly illegal copies as a guide to the relevant material? Or what if through interlibrary loan new photocopies were obtained which were copied from periodicals legally possessed by the loaning library?

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Cal Pryluck, Radio-Television-Film, Temple University, Philadelphia <PRYLUCK[_at_]VM.TEMPLE.EDU> <PRYLUCK[_at_]TEMPLEVM>

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