Re: Coursepacks

From: James Rogers <jetan[_at_]ionet.net>
Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 22:27:46 -0500 (CDT)

On 6/20/98, Steven Melamut <melas[_at_]ils.unc.edu> wrote:
>
> The Court in Michigan Document Services clearly said that if the
> publisher is currently receiving income for these types of uses and
> the means of paying for your use is readily available, then the
> publisher is entitled to collect for the use. Giving the students
> copies of the articles to photocopy is still a deprivation of
> income. I don't think that the fact that the use is not-for-profit
> will shift the analysis away from that issue.

     You may be right, but this is almost exactly opposite what I came away fron the case with. It seemed to me that this was a staight profit/non-profit and market impact case. Under MDS (and maybe *only* that case) it seemed to me that the scheme described would be OK no matter how many terms an instructor employed it.

                                              James

James Michael Rogers
jetan[_at_]ionet.net Received on Mon Jun 22 1998 - 03:26:33 GMT