Re: Libraries, ILL, and Copyright

     If I understand your present practice, you are using the ILL form as a request form for items photocopied. While that is an unusual practice, it does not run contrary to the provisions of section 108(d) of the copyright act.

     However, if users are making their own photocopies on unsupervised equipment (whether coin operated or not), there is no reason to require them to complete a form. See section 108(f)(1) of the act.

     Lolly Gasaway, Dir. of the Law Library & Prof. of Law
     Univ. of North Carolina

On Fri, 10 Feb 1995 REFLIB[_at_]ENH.NIST.GOV wrote:
>
> Our government library is open to the public during normal working hours.
> In the past, in addition to our traditional ILL, we have allowed free
> photocopying to outside patrons if they provided an ILL form for each
> item they copied. For anyone else, we had a pay copier.
>
> A decision was made that is was too much hassle to collect money from
> the pay copier, and so now all our machines are free to users. Several
> people from outside companies, who formerly came with ILL slips, feel
> that there is no more need for ILL slips. There is a copyright notice
> on each photocopier and the patrons make their own copies.
>
> Are there any copyright violations that we are not seeing?
>
> Thanks.
> Sami Klein
> NIST
Received on Mon Feb 13 1995 - 14:58:40 GMT