RE: Question

["Paul Cary" <PCary@xxxxxx>]

I'm not really a copyright guru, but I'll give this a stab.  My understanding is that the hard-copy analog of this would probably be legal under certain circumstances.  Specifically, if the professor distributed a photocopy of an article to his students, it would be legal if A) it was a relatively spontaneous idea (i.e., not something he planned to do at the beginning of the semester); B) he included a statement of copyright with the article; and C) it was a one-time affair, not something he repeats each semester.  This is, I believe, based on the "educational exemption".  I would guess that similar considerations would apply to the digital copy.  But I could be missing something.

Paul Cary
Director, Jones Music Library
Baldwin-Wallace College
275 Eastland Rd.
Berea, OH 44017
440-826-8074
pcary@xxxxxx


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stan Gardner/LI/AD/WSC [mailto:StGardn1@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 1:09 PM
> To: digital-copyright@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Question
> 
> 
> A simple question for the Copyright gurus out there.
> 
> If a faculty member downloaded the full text of an article 
> (from a database
> we subscribe to) and then e-mails it to all of his class, is that
> permissible under the copyright laws?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Dr. Stan Gardner
> Wayne State College
> Library Director
> StGardn1@xxxxxxx
> 
> 
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