Re: creating copyright office on campus

From: Allen W. Dean, CCC <76557.1122[_at_]compuserve.com>
Date: 08 Feb 95 10:21:38 EST

>Suzanne Harrell, University of Oklahoma Press, sharrell[_at_]uoknor.edu,wrote:
[snip]
> 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.

[snip]

It has been the experience of the not-for-profit Copyright Clearance Center, whose Academic Permissions Service (APS) now processes nearly 275,000 classroom use requests per year, that centralization can help the process of obtaining permissions. Whether the consolidation is on-campus or off-campus seems to make less difference than having some person(s) available to faculty who can set up procedures, answer faculty questions and streamline the flow of information.

Sandy Wong's point about the AAU report on options for ownership of rights is part of an important ongoing discussion but may not be helpful in trying to meet permission needs right now. The reality is that when you need to get permission, you need to get it from the current owner and the tracking of that ownership is one of the critical jobs of CCC and the APS.

Thanks,

Allen W. Dean
Coordinator, Academic Permissions Service Copyright Clearance Center

222 Rosewood Drive   	Tel: (508) 750-4283 x220
Danvers,  MA 01923	Fax: (508) 750-4470

Email: 76557.1122[_at_]compuserve.com Received on Wed Feb 08 1995 - 15:30:38 GMT