Re: fair use book copying

We go by the " 20% or 1 chapter, whichever if less" rule.

Jae-Lynn
UC Santa Cruz
<bresette[_at_]scilibx.ucsc.edu>

On Fri, 4 Mar 1994, Maryly Snow wrote:
>
> 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 Mon Mar 07 1994 - 16:07:04 GMT