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arl-ereserve: Copyright Issues for Electronic Reserves

Copyright Issues for Electronic Reserves

Carolyn Sprague (carolyn@ericir.syr.edu)
Fri, 21 Feb 1997 09:50:14 -0500 (EST) 

Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 09:50:14 -0500 (EST)
From: Carolyn Sprague <carolyn@ericir.syr.edu>
To: arl-ereserve@cni.org, DIGLIB@INFOSERV.NLC-BNC.CA,
Subject: Copyright Issues for Electronic Reserves
Message-Id: <Pine.SOL.3.95.970221093433.12808E-100000@ericir.syr.edu>


Greetings,

I am taking a policy and issues course in the School of Information
Studies at Syracuse University.  One of our assignments is a group project
involving a problem solving scenario related to:  digital libraries and
copyright issues for electronic reserves. 

I would be interested in other's opinion (and references to interesting
documents) on the following two questions: 

 1. When you link your Web page to a Web page owned by someone else, could
    there be any copyright issues that arise?  Has it become customary to
    seek permission before linking your page to another's site?   Could
    there be any other type of legal issue involved?

 2. In an academic library's electronic reserves room, instructors could
    be allowed to post copies of copyrighted text for their students under
    certain conditions (e.g. not for longer than a semester and only if
    the access is restricted to the students registered for the course).
    What if an instructor wants to put on reserve a text which is not a
    simple copy of the original, but includes hotlinks added by the 
    instructor himself?  What legal issues may be involved? 

Feel free to respond to me directly at the e-mail address listed below.
I will then share your feedback with the other group members.

        Carolyn Sprague <carolyn@ericir.syr.edu>

 Thank you in advance to anyone who has information to share.

Carolyn

Carolyn Sprague, Network Information Specialist
AskERIC Project
ERIC Clearinghouse on Information & Technology
Syracuse University
4-194 Center for Science & Technology
Syracuse, New York  13244-4100
E-mail: askeric@ericir.syr.edu
URL: http://ericir.syr.edu
Phone: (315) 443-3640
FAX: (315) 443-5448

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