I have just received the following question from a faculty member.
"In the fall of 2002, I placed several CDs from my own personal
collection on reserve for my students. The required listening included
only one or two selections/songs from each CD.
For this upcoming semester, I'm interested in making one CD which will
contain all thirteen selections from my collection of nine CDs and in
placing this CD on reserve. This process would ensure that my personal
CDs would not be harmed, that I would have easier access to the CDs for
in-class playings and my own class preparations, and - most importantly
- that students would not be able to copy the entire original CDs onto
their computers. As well, the library will only have to process one
personal CD (I will also be placing several music library CDs on reserve.)"
Would this copy be legal? Is this legal because it is only a song from
each cd or is this illegal because it is creating an anthology? How
about the fact that it is the same material in 2 semesters? If each
song was placed on a separate cd would it be legal?
Thanks,
Elisabeth
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Elisabeth Leonard
Head of Reference/Business and Economics Librarian
Z. Smith Reynolds Library
Wake Forest University
PO Box 7777
Winston-Salem NC 27109
Phone: 336-758-5493
Fax: 336-758-8831
leonarea@xxxxxxx