Re: textbooks on library reserve

On 10/21/97, Glen (McKay) Gummess <gmckay[_at_]nmjc.cc.nm.us> wrote:
>
> It seems to me that the Fair Use Guidelines for Educational Multimedia
> are an excellent model for achieving a "safe harbor" for a given
> practice (i.e., using copyrighted works in hypermedia for education).
> Why not apply that model to reserve collections?

     If one wants to give up rights one may well have, in order to avoid challanges from publishers, the Educational Multimedia Guidelines provide an excellent model. However, as one who thinks the educator's rights available for electronic reserve are considerably more far reaching, I would hope we could get some case law and find out.

                                BRB

Bert R. Boyce, Professor & Dean
School of Library & Information Science
Louisiana State University
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LSBOYC[_at_]LSUVM.sncc.lsu.edu Received on Wed Oct 22 1997 - 14:13:25 GMT