Re: Coursepacks

On Mon, June 22, 1998, James Rogers <jetan[_at_]ionet.net> wrote:
>
> 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.

Visit http://www.copyright.com/ to get a list of sites about fair use and academic (& coursepack) legal decisions. The site I am posting is for the Copyright Clearance Center, which provides "Academic Permissions Service (APS) enables coursepack developers to clear permissions for a broad range of works for use in the academic community."

Fredrick Rea O'Keefe "Rick"
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