Re: Outsourcing coursepack photocopying

On Fri, 14 Mar 1997, David Davis <ddavis[_at_]copyright.com> wrote:
>
> 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.

I have two questions about the CCC solution:

Will the CCC represent all publishers?

Will the CCC secure the free permissions which I have gotten directly from some publishers for coursepack type material?

Anne Klinefelter
Head of Public Services
The University of Miami School of Law Library aklinefe[_at_]law.miami.edu Received on Tue Mar 18 1997 - 14:19:55 GMT