the boundaries of educational use

Further to Michael Roy's question about distributing images for an educational vs commercial purpose, what actually are the the guidelines for copying and distributing text within an educational context? A rather fundamental question, but seem to be having trouble getting guidelines. Specifically, here at the Smithsonian, books are copied, seemingly in rather large numbers, for researchers. The internal party line seems to be that since it is "educational" it is ok. I doubt that, but would appreciate any comment or advice about what curbs or precedents exist within an educational institution.

Peter F. Cannell
Science Editor, Smithsonian Institution University Press sipad002[_at_]sivm.si.edu
voice: 202/287-3738 ext. 328 fax: 202/287-3637 Received on Mon Feb 28 1994 - 14:51:27 GMT