Re: Image copyright question

["Julia A. Perhac" <jperhac@xxxxxxxxx>]

I have a question that is similar to Brenda's and since my experience in copyright issues overall is limited, I'm hoping there would be some wisdom here for me, too!

Our scenario is one where a printed journal article needs to be distributed to students who are completing fieldwork and who are geographically distributed across the country. 

Would Fair Use permit the instructor to scan the printed article and attach it to an email to be sent to each student individually? Would Fair Use permit the scanned article be posted to Blackboard?

Thank-you very much for your input.

Julia A. Perhac
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Touro University California
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---- Original message ----
>Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 08:45:46 -0400
>From: Brenda Nelson <Brenda.Nelson@xxxxxxx>  
>Subject: Image copyright question  
>To: digital-copyright@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>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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