Re: fair use book copying

I have heard various percentages, but they often fall around 10-20% of the total

Maryly Snow
UC Berkeley

> Thanks to Maryly Snow and Ruth Dukelow for book references. We'll get these
> and see what sections 107 an 108 have to say. In the mean time, is there
> a short answer to how a "portion" is defined? The staff of the National
> Museum of Natural History were instructed that if they indicated one chapter
> of a book NOT to be copyed, then the rest of the book could be copied, and
> it has apparently been adding up to a tremendous amount of copying. I have
> challenged them on this, and tried to enlist aid of our legal counsel, but
> to my knowledge no policy change has been announced or initiated.
> Extraordinary.
>
> 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 Fri Mar 04 1994 - 01:52:21 GMT