creating copyright office on campus

I am posting this message on behalf of the University Legal Counsel's Office. Replies posted to the group will be routed to him or replies sent directly to my email address will be forwarded.

Thank you.

At the University of Oklahoma:

     We are thinking of establishing a University office which will consolidate and process faculty requests for permission to reproduce copyrighted material for classroom use. Currently, faculty must do this on their own and are frustrated either by the time it takes to receive word from the copyright owner or by their inability to even locate the owner.     

     For those of you who have considered or solved this problem, what are the pros and cons of the various solutions (consolidated central office, clearinghouse service, individual responsibility, off-campus agent, etc)? I would appreciate any administrative rules and forms you can share.

Suzanne Harrell
University of Oklahoma Press
phone (405) 325-5132 fax (405) 325-4000 sharrell[_at_]uoknor.edu Received on Thu Feb 02 1995 - 15:28:29 GMT