Image copyright question

[Brenda Nelson <Brenda.Nelson@xxxxxxx>]

Since my experience in dealing with image copyright issues is 
limited, I need some advice.

Multiple images (as many as 15)  have been scanned from a single 
book. These images were then inserted into Word documents. The Word 
documents were then posted  on Blackboard (course ware).

I understand that Fair Use is more limited for images than for a 
journal article, since an image is considered to be a work in and of 
itself. Do you have any suggestion as to how many images from a 
single book/article/etc (assuming that the rights holder is the same 
as the rights holder for the image) could be used once without 
getting permission?

Thanks in advance.


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Brenda Nelson
Library Support Generalist
Dana Medical Library
Medical Education Center
81 Colchester Ave.
University of Vermont
Burlington, VT 05405-0068

voice: (802) 656-4401
fax: (802) 656-0762
e-mail: Brenda.Nelson@xxxxxxx