Re: copyright expiration as a spur to creativity

Michael Scarpitti <mscarpit[_at_]asnt.org> wrote:
>
> This precisely the problem. If I go to the bookstore to order a book,
> and the order comes back unfilled, and "out of print", and a prolonged
> book search comes up with nothing, what are my 'legal' options? By the
> way, anybody out there have a copy of Peter Newmark's Approaches to
> Translation, 1981? I cannot find a copy, and I need it!

Well, I think the law says your library can copy it for you (after verifying that it is NOT available). But the fear of lawsuits has had such a chilling effect on library services that I suspect you'd have a hard time persuading them to do so.

Just before I transferred from the main library on campus (to the Law Library) I was attempting to establish a procedure for exactly this kind of situation, and I was having a very difficult time getting it past the litigation-wary library administrators. I suspect they dropped the whole issue as soon as I was gone :-(

Laureen C. Urquiaga
Hunter Law Library, Brigham Young University urquiagal[_at_]lawgate.byu.edu Received on Fri Jul 31 1998 - 14:51:21 GMT