Re: Question on sharing digital document delivery materials

[joseph1052@xxxxxxx]

March 21, 2007
 
Deg,
Are you saying that if I received an ILL derived document, I could or could not post to my on-line web site for other students to read?
 
Sincerely,
Joe Salacki
UMUC Maryland
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: deg.farrelly@xxxxxxx
To: digital-copyright@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 10:06 PM
Subject: Question on sharing digital document delivery materials


I have received the following question from a faculty member.   I would
appreciate hearing your opinions on this.

She writes:

<<we are talking about developing a blackboard site that would have access
limited to a handful of faculty - e.g., five or so - working collaboratively
on a research topic (e.g., teacher retention).

Suppose, as one of the five faculty members I get a digitally delivered
document.

Can I post that document to the blackboard site so that my collaborators can
download
it and access it?

Visualize this as taking the place of a plastic tub of folders where shared
resources would be kept. Can we do it?

What limits?>>


MY interpretation is (assuming all of the faculty are members of my
institution and can be authenticated)
if the document were something that we had licensed access to, there would
be no question of  * linking * a durable URL to the article.

But POSTING an article received via DocDel or ILL for others to use is
equivalent to making multiple photocopies and sending them out.


Your thoughts?  (Are MUCH appreciated!)


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deg farrelly, Associate Librarian
Arizona State University at the West campus
PO Box 37100
Phoenix, Arizona  85069-7100
Phone:  602.543.8522
Email:  deg.farrelly@xxxxxxx
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