RE: Intellectual property question

["William Allen" <wallen@xxxxxxxxxx>]

If the articles are available in an online database, that would be my
preference. If not, I'd have the bookstore put together a package that
secures permission.

William Allen
Director, Center for Learning Technologies
Prof. Art History
wallen@xxxxxxxxxx
http://www.clt.astate.edu/wallen
"The future is already here, it's just not evenly distributed."
Attributed to William Gibson


-----Original Message-----
From: Valerie A. Lang [mailto:langval@xxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, September 17, 2004 10:13 AM
To: digital-copyright@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Intellectual property question

Colleagues,

Suppose a professor is developing a new course for which there is no
textbook available.  How can an instructor assign students to read a
selection of articles as the "text" for the course without running afoul
of
copyright?

Essentially, the articles or excerpts would function as the text, but
the
instructor would refer to them in course materials as assigned readings.

I can imagine three ways of doing this so far, but I'm not certain of
the
copyright implications.

1) Copy articles or excerpts and distribute them to students in class.

2) Assign students to locate hardcopies of articles and read them.

3) Assign students to read articles that are available online via
research
databases.


Thanks in advance.

Valerie A. Lang
Instructor/Librarian
Hudson Valley Community College
80 Vandenburgh Avenue
Troy, NY  12180
518.629.7319