Re: textbooks on library reserve

From: Frederick E Emrich <emrich[_at_]U.Arizona.EDU>
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 06:54:53 -0700 (MST)

On Mon, 20 Oct 1997, David Shontz <shontz[_at_]uthscsa.edu> wrote:
>
> Bert Boyce <lsboyc[_at_]lsuvm.sncc.lsu.edu> wrote:
> >
> > The rubber is going to hit the road when electronic reserve permits
> > class members to view such materials on the net. This is vital to
> > support distance education efforts that are growing rapidly in
> > Universities, but the law seems far less clear to me in this area.
>
> This has in fact already happened, and the Copyright Clearance Center
> has offered a service to get permissions for electronic reserves.

But the electronic corollary to books on library reserve would be readings on electronic reserve *without* the okay from (and cash to) the Copyright Clearance Center. Publishers would likely argue that posting a reading electronically amounts to republishing it, and so violates copyright. But what if a course reading is posted to a class listserv and can only be accessed with a password given to students registered in the course? Is this copyright violation, or fair use of library resources?

--Rick Emrich

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Rick Emrich
University of Arizona, Dept. of Media Arts emrich[_at_]U.Arizona.EDU Received on Tue Oct 21 1997 - 13:58:35 GMT