Outsourcing coursepack photocopying

I have a question about the impact it might have on a claim of fair use for making coursepacks under the following circumstances:

1. the copyshop is a University nonprofit inhouse entity.
2. at peak times it cannot keep up with the volume of copying without going to a 24 hour/day schedule
3. the copyshop chooses to outsource a significant percentage of photocopying to for-profit entities
4. the copyshop does everything else itself, including paying royalties for uses beyond the University's prescribed fair use limit.

What do you think? should the copyshop forget about fair use for those copies that are made by the outsource?

Georgia Harper
Univ. of Tx. System
Office of General Counsel
gharper[_at_]utsystem.edu Received on Mon Mar 10 1997 - 21:14:49 GMT