RE: Image copyright question

["Mackellar, Laurie A \(Elizabethtown\)" <laurie.mackellar@xxxxxxxxx>]

I know that the CONFU guidelines (which were never formally ratified)
allowed an instructor, under limited circumstances, to digitize up to 15
images from a single book and post them on a password-protected class
site. Many universities still use the CONFU guidelines in the absence of
anything else. Permission should be requested, and any fees paid for
repeat use

Laurie MacKellar
Public Services Librarian
Elizabethtown Community and Technical College
600 College Street Rd
Elizabethtown KY 42701
270.706.8439

-----Original Message-----
From: Brenda Nelson [mailto:Brenda.Nelson@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 8:46 AM
To: digital-copyright@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Image copyright question

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

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