Re: Outsourcing coursepack photocopying

Yesterday in this thread, Matthew Watters <watters[_at_]prtaxp.unl.edu> made this point succinctly,
>
> I thought that, under cases like Princeton Univ. Press v. Michigan
> Document Services and Basic Books v. Kinko's, as well as under the
> Fair Use Guidelines for Books and Periodicals, just about *any*
> photocopying for *coursepacks* (and not, by way of contrast,
> spontaneous copying of classroom handouts) was an infringing use
> unless permission was obtained.

The mechanisms in place, and being developed, by the Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) for facilitating copyright compliance at academic institutions are singularly apt to exactly this context, where the courts do seem to be strongly endorsing the view that 'fair uses' within commercial transactions are few and far between.

CCC Online <http://www.copyright.com> makes it simple for coursepack producers, anywhere along the spectrum, to clear permissions in an automated, web-based environment. The database redesign that CCC is implementing for CCC Online will add a much greater granularity to these permissions, down to the article and author level.

David Davis
<ddavis[_at_]copyright.com> Received on Fri Mar 14 1997 - 15:50:51 GMT